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NASA investigators made a major breakthrough last week in their investigation of the Columbia disaster, determining that the shuttle's breakup may have been caused by plasma--superhot gas--leaking into the ship's wheel well. The revelation came as a surprise to many, but not to longtime NASA watchers. They had heard a similar story almost 40 years before...
Wang's pompadour is visible on news kiosks across the country. The Chinese magazine Business World featured his plans to become a mobile-phone magnate. A new book, The Holley Breakthrough, celebrates his firm, best known for selling electricity meters, as "the model of the Made-in-China era." But the greatest awe is for Wang's acquisition of foreign companies, especially public ones, a strategy with great symbolic value in an era in which China wants to assert itself as a global investor, not just an exporter...
...DIED. DOLLY, 6, the world's first cloned mammal, of a lung infection; in Edinburgh. The birth of Dolly the sheep in 1996 was a scientific breakthrough, but it raised concerns about the ethics of cloning?and about the health of the clones. Australia's first cloned sheep, Matilda, has also died, though it seemed to be in good health...
...Chan, too, doesn't want to stop. He has been a Hong Kong icon for ages?his breakthrough film, Snake in Eagle's Shadow, opened 25 years ago next month?but he became a Hollywood star only in 1998. And dammit, he's determined to enjoy the ride, however many bumps he may take...
...rhetoric coming out of North Korea, most Japanese remain relatively unconcerned about the possibility of a nuclear attack. They still believe that the U.S. will protect them from Pyongyang's threatened "sea of fire." But Japan's political leaders do worry about the peninsula: as they see it, a breakthrough in relations between North and South Korea that freezes out Japan and the U.S. would be a regional disaster. Indeed, many people believe that the Japanese government would rewrite the peace constitution if faced with a real prospect of Korean unification or of the U.S. withdrawing its troops from South...