SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s authoritarian leader ordered his nation’s munitions factories to accelerate artillery shell production, even as state media boasted of new records set in ...

In the intervening 17 years, cockles have become my second-favorite bivalve. These beauties are born for the can. Open the lid to reveal their little pink bodies, arrayed in tight, fleshy formation.

And I saw that there was a problem with my shell prompt. I fixed it, and then everything went back to normal.