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...JAXA's current budget of $1.8 billion. Sekigawa doubts such increases will find much political backing. "The government doesn't seem that interested in space at the moment," he says. Johnson-Freese of the U.S. Naval War College sees no evidence that Japan will commit the resources needed to chase China in space: "Technologically, everyone understands that the Japanese could pretty much do whatever they want, but it's the politics that...
...prices fall, easing pressure on the economy, Miller expects the somnolent stock market to revive. Among the companies he thinks will benefit are banking behemoths like J.P. Morgan Chase and Citigroup. He's also wagering that Internet company Expedia will profit from increased online travel bookings and that other consumer plays, like Sears Holdings and Home Depot, will rebound as concerns over high fuel costs fade...
This season Bruckheimer tries to go six for six, with an almost frighteningly astute twist on his procedural formula. In Close to Home (Tuesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.), Annabeth Chase (Jennifer Finnigan) is a prosecutor and new mom who works on horrible cases in a leafy suburb. She has just returned from maternity leave--we first see her being awakened by her crying baby--but gets little support from her career-focused co-workers. "You have got to stop making decisions with your hormones," her (female) boss warns her. But her mom status is also an asset to her department, giving...
...thankfully less flashy than the CGI-heavy, color-coded CSIs. And Finnigan, who was adorable in NBC's otherwise forgettable sitcom Committed, is the Security Mom of prime-time sleuths, exuding both warmth and steely backbone--a crusader for justice with a fridgeful of breast milk at the office. Chase gets more and faster backstory than most of the CSI copbots, even if it's pretty ham-handed: near the end of the pilot, she strokes her sleeping baby's head and coos, "I'll keep you safe." Parents fear for their kids' security and fear not having the time...
Storywise, Close to Home is unimpressive; the pilot's abusive dad is such a sneering, obvious bad guy that your dog could have put him away for 20 years. And the show suffers from a common failing of crime dramas about lawyers: it needs Chase not just to prosecute crimes--boring!--but also to solve them. I suspect that the show will go into ever less plausible contortions to take her out of the courtroom and into crime scenes. But it may be that viewers will not care. It's a big, spooky country, and Bruckheimer knows far better than...