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...paper chase is maddeningly ineffective. Zhou Mingqin, a 75-year-old woman from Henan province, rode on the back of a tricycle-wagon pedaled by her son for the 600-km trip to Beijing. She wants an investigation into the deaths of three family members, whom she claims were killed for being too inquisitive about missing disaster-relief funds granted to her village after a devastating hailstorm. In August 2002, Zhou says she walked into the civil-affairs sector of the Henan Provincial People's Court to deliver her petition, only to have a policeman punch her in the face...
...universe. Hence the name, inspired by the Rosetta Stone, the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics. Rosetta is an ambitious and technically challenging mission. It will not be easy to keep a rendezvous in 2014 with a comet tearing through space near Jupiter. The 165-kg-payload orbiter is to chase, circle and remotely study the comet, as well as dispatch a 100-kg lander onto its surface for closer analysis. If the j1 billion mission succeeds, scientists say it will be a major step toward improving human understanding of the origin of the sun, Earth and the other planets...
...pilots say this is just the worst case in a litany of other lockbox mishaps. Some pilots have reportedly had to chase their lockboxes as they were being carted away by unknowing baggage handlers. One pilot said that on six separate occasions his lockbox was not where he had properly put it on an airplane. If the TSA isn't listening to pilot concerns, it may soon be answering to Congress. Several congressmen, according to sources from pilot groups, are preparing legislation that will force the TSA to amend the weapons carriage policy...
...this season, more than ever, a larger playoff system would be the ideal way to avoid the controversy of leaving teams out of the title chase, as happened to Harvard in 2000, one year after capturing the national championship...
...Harvard proved unable to defend the three. Many of Brown’s 13 trifectas came after star point guard Jason Forte penetrated before kicking the ball out to the perimeter, where the Bears whipped it around to the open man as the Crimson scrambled futilely to chase...