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...Chinese policy of pegging its currency, the renminbi, to the U.S. dollar. The Bush Administration has criticized Beijing for keeping its currency artificially undervalued, making Chinese-made products more competitive and investment in China more attractive. "The buildup of the deficit with China is becoming very serious," says Charles Chang, managing partner of investment consulting firm Accolade Inc. in Seoul. "The next President has to continue the effort to relax control of the renminbi...
...became suspicious in 1997 when a swab at a research reactor near Seoul picked up traces of plutonium that shouldn't have been there. For years, Seoul offered no explanation, saying the paperwork had been lost. Finally, in September, the president of the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), Chang In Soon, said the traces were residual material from a "one-off test" in which fuel was taken from a reactor and dissolved in chemicals, allowing the plutonium it contained to be extracted. A confidential Ministry of Science and Technology report obtained by TIME states that five fuel rods were...
...tenderness. A touch of the hand, a kiss on the face, a few tears and their time is over. In this cinematic short story?as delicate as Guy de Maupassant's, as terse and acute as Raymond Carver's?Wong touches on his old themes of romance and remorse. Chang Chen, looking like a younger Tony Leung in mustache and '60s clothing, gives a mature performance; but Gong Li is the eye magnet. As Hua the regal manipulator, she ages and diminishes, allowing the viewer to escort her on her appointment with tragedy. Give the lady a big hand...
...TIME: What's your working relationship like with Doyle and with your art director, William Chang? Wong: It's a very long working relationship, and it makes a lot of things much easier. And actually we don't have to discuss much about the film. We don't need meetings. Sometimes I ever prefer that way because we need some suspense between each other. I have to guess what William is doing. By the time I get to the set, I have to respond to that. So that may be a very good way to inspire each other. Otherwise...
Even under optimal conditions, gathering data by flying into hurricanes is never fun. Yet these gut-wrenching passes are extremely valuable. For with each one, Paul Chang, a NOAA researcher who works on remote sensing technology, amasses more information about how his instruments operate, and that information, he says, will allow him to calibrate similar instruments mounted on satellites. Someday he and his colleagues may be able to monitor the dynamic surface wind field in the vicinity of a hurricane at a comfortable remove...