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The media have concentrated on this concern, and politicians have responded with escalated funding over the past two years for fundamental research into the many questions surrounding this mysterious disease.
But the country was politically fragmented, with arguments between monarchists and republicans, right and left, and tension escalated into civil war.
The staged confrontations ostensibly were used to test inmates' ability to avoid fights and thus their readiness to enter the general prison population, but the report says they often escalated into predictably bloody violence.
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan briefly shook world financial markets a couple of weeks ago with a single question: "How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?"
This is the latest in a series of incidents--a North Korean submarine crew infiltrating the South, North Korea's top ideologist seeking asylum in South Korea's Beijing embassy--that have escalated tensions between the two countries.