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...reporters' job to intentionally inflame bad situations. But it's emphatically not their job to try to calm them artificially. It's their job to report events as the facts indicate. Here, the facts are that a group of Americans are being held on an island off the coast of China, which they are not allowed to leave except in exchange for a concession (an apology). Is it unreasonable to assume that the only thing keeping them from being "hostages" is that (a) our government knows America can better do without Iranian pistachios than without a billion-plus Chinese consumers...
...quicker than the one then used, around the southern tip of Africa. But few sailors dared risk the Arctic Ocean's freezing temperatures, ice-clogged seas and blinding fog. Now, though, Thorne's idea is being taken more seriously, owing to global warming. The sea ice along the northern coast of Siberia is retreating, and last year a team of international scientists reported that ice-free routes have emerged during summer months. Within 20 years, the passage is expected to be passable without an icebreaker escort. This northern route would cut the distance from Hamburg to Yokohama...
...public tone was not encouraging. Chinese officials claimed that the U.S. plane had veered suddenly into the F-8 fighter, even though the EP-3E is about half as fast as and far less nimble than the Chinese jet. The collision had occurred about 70 miles off China's coast; China considers its sovereign airspace to extend 200 miles offshore, even though international agreements recognize only 12 miles. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao declared that the plane had violated Chinese airspace, landed without permission and thus lost its sovereign immunity - so the Chinese government would be perfectly within its rights...
Gunderson, Magnuson and junior Christine Meiers scored three goals apiece in the UCSC game while freshman Elana Miller saved eleven of the Slugs' would-be goals. Harvard's winning streak fell with the temperature as the Crimson returned to the East Coast to compete in the ECAC championships at Princeton...
...hasn't rushed to hand over a U.S. spy plane and its 24-man crew involved in a mid-air collision with a Chinese air force fighter on Sunday. To understand why, flip the script for a moment: Imagine a Chinese plane flying a surveillance mission off the Florida coast colliding with an Air Force F-16 sent on an aggressive monitoring mission. The U.S. fighter goes down and the pilot is lost; the Chinese plane is forced to land on U.S. soil. The incident occurs at a moment when China is about to supply a package of sophisticated weapons...