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...technological self-confidence, the Shenzhou 3 rocket carried not snails-they were part of the payload during a mission last year-but crash-test dummies, which sent back simulated heartbeats and voices. (Ordinary Chinese could relate, being familiar with the National People's Congress.) While in orbit, the craft also captured digital images of Earth that notebook hopes will answer the age-old trivia question: is the Great Wall really visible from space...
...when Bush signed the “Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002,” Representative Martin T. Meehan (D-Mass.) got a very different reception. The indefatigable House sponsor of the bill—who, with Republican sponsor Christopher M. Shays of Connecticut, worked for years to craft the language of the bill, and then months to get the requisite number of signatures to discharge the measure from committee—got only a phone call from an aide as the president rushed off to a fundraising event in South Carolina. The press was not even allowed...
...beginning, yes. Because that's normally how it goes in the circus; it goes from generation to generation and your teacher is your father. Like a craftsman, you pass your craft on to your son. If you are a trapeze artist, chances are that your son will be a trapeze artist. But I made the decision to become a clown when I was 8. My father thought it was just a phase. In the beginning he was not very happy, not because he was against it, but because he told me, "David, what can I teach...
...Spielberg’s traditional and self-importantly mawkish fashion. The story is a simple one—boy (Elliot, played by Henry Thomas) meets alien (E.T.), boy befriends alien, boy helps alien escape the authorities and return to his people. Within this framework, Spielberg and screenwriter Melissa Mathison craft a fair tolerance parable that teaches its lesson with brevity...
...remoteness ideal for a penal colony, the islands were largely ignored until a newly independent India thought them the perfect location for military muscle building. The Indian Navy still regularly stages beach landings to the bewilderment of sunbathing tourists. Last November, a flotilla of warships, attack helicopters, amphibious craft and even battle tanks occupied a deserted island defended only by cockatoos...