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...Osprey proved impossible to kill, thanks to lawmakers who rescued it from Cheney's ax time and again because of the home-district money that came with it - and to the irresistible notion that American engineers had found a way to improve on another great aviation breakthrough, the helicopter...
...WHEN AN African American portraying a doctor on TV was a news event, veteran actor Percy Rodrigues--whose 30 years of film, TV and booming voice-over work included narrating the famously eerie ad campaign for 1975's Jaws--resolutely fought against typecasting blacks. One result: his breakthrough 1968 role as neurosurgeon Harry Miles on TV's Peyton Place, which influenced a generation of artists and inspired this headline in the Los Angeles Times: A DOCTOR'S ROLE FOR NEGRO ACTOR...
LOOKING AHEAD Venter's breakthrough, says genome expert Dr. Edward Rubin, means individual DNA sequencing is inevitable: "It's not clear whether it'll be 10 years or 50 years, but in our lifetime, this will happen...
...Recall that back in February, Kim's government agreed, during the so-called six-party talks, to shutter its Yongbyon nuclear plant within 60 days of signing what was then billed as a breakthrough agreement. In return, the North would get a variety of economic and diplomatic benefits. After several years of fruitless talks, this seemed like a major diplomatic victory for the Bush Administration and its partners - Japan, South Korea, Russia and China. But Kim delayed moving on Yongbyon until the North got back more than $20 million that had been frozen in a Macau bank account - funds...
...tilt toward a regional FTA is the malaise in the World Trade Organization, where the Doha Round of talks, aimed at getting rich economies to lower barriers to poor nations' exports, has been in gridlock for years. The APEC leaders are expected to issue a statement urging a breakthrough, but they did that last year and the year before that to no avail. And if the Doha talks fail, says economist Edwards, "it becomes all the more important that this region have the widest free-trade agreement possible." Downer, however, sees that as a very remote prospect...