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Traveling at perhaps 20km a second, the giant mass of iron and nickel crosses western Australia in under a minute and dives into the atmosphere, its path traced by the hiss and crackle of electrophonic noise, echoed by thunderous sonic booms as the air slows it through the sound barrier. Around it an envelope of ionized gas produces an incandescent fireball, brilliant as the sun, hot enough to vaporize the metal until what's left - as massive as a battleship and some 50m across - drives itself at more than 20,000 km an hour into the desert floor...
...break through this barrier of fear, Ho has encouraged Health Minister Wu to visit the AIDS villages in Henan. Wu's visit would be the first by someone in her post and would send, Ho hopes, a powerful message that the government is more interested in controlling the epidemic than in assigning blame. Wu was appointed Health Minister when her predecessor, with whom Ho had begun his project, was fired by the Communist Party for mishandling the SARS outbreak?denying its existence until the epidemic was out of hand. "SARS was a big kick in the pants for China...
...revealing. Howard on his solitary morning walks; a leader who appears at home with George W. Bush and the Queen, but out of place (an "abandoned lunch box" quipped former Liberal leader John Hewson) at a pre-school; a statesman who keeps the press at bay behind a barrier at Parliament House but cosies up to the millionaire talkback radio kings for a nice chat. For voters, it's a choice between two indelible archetypes: Labor's "too fast, too furious" man at the wheel, and a Bradman-era P. M. in the prime of his life...
Against the Wall MIDDLE EAST The International Court of Justice, meeting in the Hague, ruled that Israel 's controversial West Bank barrier violates international law and called on the U.N. to consider taking action to halt its construction. Jerusalem said it would not accept the nonbinding judgement, and the U.S. argued that it was inappropriate for the World Court to rule on what it called a political issue...
With the Nereus crew taking its semifinal race by a narrow one-quarter length margin, the stage was set for an all Netherlands final. Nereus charged out of the gate, taking the lead by the Barrier point and maintaining it for the duration of the race, as it finished in a time of 6:52—12 seconds faster than it finished in its quarterfinal defeat of Harvard...