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North Korea is preparing to launch a satellite to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, the country's founder. But the international community has condemned the move as an attempt to test the country's long-range missile capability.

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In February, North Korea agreed to freeze uranium enrichment and missile tests and allow international nuclear inspectors — and then immediately announced a rocket launch. North Korea watchers are puzzled by the mixed messages and wonder who is calling the shots in a country with a new, untested leader.

Flip-flops in Iowa keep cropping up like spent corncobs. The recent national debt crisis brought out rampant charges of flip-flopping, too. What's behind all the charges of changeovers? A look at the storied history of the political about-face and what it says about our national character.

The U.S. recently agreed to provide North Korea with food assistance, and it was hoped that this would help calm tensions in the region. But under its new leader, North Korea is now planning a rocket launch next month that's making everyone uneasy.

In these difficult economic times, many Americans are wary of buying items they'll use just once or twice and then store in the garage. But for those times you really need a hedge clipper or camping stove, there's NeighborGoods.net, an inventory of items your neighbors are willing to lend.

Justice Clarence Thomas rarely speaks during a Supreme Court argument. Perhaps he reserves his opinions for private conversations with the other justices. Quiet People can be quite social and sociable. They just don't say much.

Wi-Fi is now available at 35,000 feet. Roughly 1 in 3 domestic planes already has it, and the number is growing. But one industry analyst says that many passengers who could be logging on aren't.

Google Inc., the company behind the Internet's most popular search engine, files its long-awaited plans for an initial public offering. The prospect of a Google IPO has kept Silicon Valley abuzz all year. Google said it expects to raise $2.7 billion through the stock sale, but the first day of trading is likely months away. NPR's Elaine Korry reports.

Dozens of websites have been secretly harvesting lists of places that their users previously visited online, everything from news articles to bank sites to pornography. A team of UCSD computer scientists -- a graduate student and 3 professors -- found that the practice of "history sniffing" is possible because of a weakness in web browsers which allows websites to do this.