I passed a work train and cleanup gang, the mudbucket scooping gray slime from the tracks, the crew repairing the sensor wire that warns a control room in the city ...

to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school

Chiacchia had to relearn the basics of walking and tying his shoes, but is now back competing in eventing.

Still, there were hints that other delegations were willing to consider language that would allow North Korea eventually to have some sort of peaceful-use nuclear programme -- if not light-water reactors -- if it rejoined international nuclear non-proliferation treaties and allowed international inspectors in.