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Tenn. gov. pushes for Wal-Mart 'degrees'

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen wants the state to do a better job at preparing students for careers at Wal-Mart. But he's not talking about stocking shelves or checking out customers at the retail giant.

Instead, Bredesen wants to tailor community college programs to offer courses on retail management.

Bredesen, a Democrat, pitched his proposal on how to address a management shortage at big-box retail stores on a recent trip to Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s headquarters in Bentonville, Ark.

While no formal arrangement has been struck, Bredesen and Wal-Mart officials agreed to work on developing a curriculum.

Bredesen told The Associated Press he would consider an arrangement where community colleges teach Wal-Mart-specific skills, if the company would agree to guarantee jobs for graduates with good grades.

US: N. Korea zone can‘t be in trade deal

SEOUL, South Korea - Including North Korean-made goods in a proposed South Korea -U.S. free trade agreement is impossible as Washington lacks authority to do so, a top U.S. Commerce Department official said Monday.

Seoul is pushing hard for goods made at Kaesong Industrial Complex, a zone just across the border in communist North Korea where about a dozen South Korean companies have factories employing cheap local labor, to be covered by the free trade agreement.

Lavin later told reporters that the U.S. opposition to including the goods produced at the Kaesong complex was unrelated to broader U.S. concerns about North Korea, such as its missile tests, nuclear program and allegations its counterfeits U.S. currency and engages in other illicit activities.

If successful, a deal between Seoul and Washington deal would be the biggest for the United States since the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, in 1993.

A Wake-Up Call From Craig McCaw

Imagine a future like this: You're on the Acela high-speed train from Boston to Washington and you want to touch base with friends in Beijing and London. You pull out your laptop and moments later are catching up via video link -- even as the train thunders along at 150 miles an hour. Later, as you zip past the White House in a cab, you grab the same laptop to catch up on e-mail, then boot up your media player to watch a few minutes of the afternoon ball game of your hometown favorite, the Boston Red Sox. .

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