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...should have happened years ago. Formosan termites first arrived on the mainland U.S. just after World War II, experts believe, carried from Far Eastern ports in planks or packing crates by military cargo ships. For decades, nobody worried much about them, thanks largely to powerful pesticides that drove them away from houses. But the termites simply turned their attention to nearby trees, where they thrived largely unnoticed...
...river slows down as it emerges from the Three Gorges onto the plains, but the impatience for wealth and success only increases. Wuhan, China's fifth largest city, is the transfer point for cargo from oceangoing ships to smaller boats heading further upriver, and has long been a center of commerce. Here are department stores with imported brands, stock-trading houses, U.S. fast-food chains--and "Balls," a newly opened NBA theme bar run by a former car salesman from Taiwan. Not so slick as Shanghai, Wuhan still has its pretensions, enough to attract people such as "Johnny" Wang Liang...
...deaths of dozens of baby rats aboard the space shuttle Columbia wasn?t warning enough, the crew of Mir risked the ire of animal rights activists Monday -- or rather, amphibian and mollusk rights -- when their latest cargo came in. For the newest residents of the Russian space station are 15 two-year-old Oriental newts, and ?about? 80 snails -- Mir biologist Georgy Samarin being unsure of the precise number of gastropod cosmonauts...
...pregnant not long after meeting him, and she married like the good Catholic she has always tried to be. But by the early '90s, it was clear to friends that even their four children weren't going to hold Steve and Mary Letourneau together. Expenses outpaced salaries--Steve loads cargo for Alaska Airlines--and creditors were phoning. They filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy...
...forgiven for taking a celebratory nip: In what might have been a rerun of last June's disastrous collision, the autopilot docking mechanism aboard a supply ship again failed -- but this time, Mir's commander managed to use the manual controls to safely dock the vessel. And inside the cargo vessel, for the cosmonaut who has everything, a new set of wrenches. Now they can fix that damn door...