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...power ahead of next year's Party Congress. On a second level, Chen's arrest, along with the news late last week that real estate speculation was also under scrutiny in other parts of the country, reflected Beijing's seriousness about taking China's overheated property markets off the boil. But Chen's downfall might be sending yet another, equally important message to officials: Keep your hands off China's pension system...
...blowing up train stations. The newer, sleeker version of the Gastrovac, developed earlier this year, still looks like a pressure cooker attached by rubber hose to a high-tech hot plate, but its functions are thoroughly space age. By lowering atmospheric pressure, it brings liquids to boil at temperatures much lower than normal - 55?C for water, 80?C for oil - while still cooking more quickly than traditional vacuum cookers. Lower temperatures and shorter cooking times keep the cellular structure - as well as the color, texture and nutrients - of foods intact...
Wednesday night was a long and troubling one for Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. A bubbling plot by British citizens to blow up airplanes had come to a boil in the past three days, and as British authorities arrested dozens of suspects around London, it was Chertoff's job to coordinate the U.S. defenses. Scary intelligence reports pop up all the time, but this particular terror operation got close enough to being carried out that it rattled even the normally sedate Chertoff. "Very seldom do things get to me," he told Rep. Peter King, the Republican chairman of the House...
...indicative of the danger of daily life in Baghdad these days that the very basis of your identity can mark you for death. For combatants in Iraq's low-boil civil war - which has erupted anew in the capital, with dozens of Sunnis killed by Shi'ite militants in the last few days - identifying the enemy can be difficult. Shi'ites and Sunnis share a common ethnicity and have a hard time telling themselves apart. And so the killers rely on a cruder vetting process: choosing victims based on their first name, which for many Iraqis is their only religiously...
...Some of the stuff I was writing was strictly to boil a pot,” Halls says. He got $500 for an article he wrote for Ford Magazine about Gertrude Stein’s love of automobiles...