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...fighter pilot, roared into the heavens to become China's first man in space. During his 21-hour journey in the heavens, the 38-year-old Yang maneuvered weightlessly in the tight compartment of the Shenzhou V capsule, taking photographs, naps, and at one point producing a tiny Chinese flag?an iconic image that would soon be broadcast to 1.3 billion fellow citizens back home. The mission-control room outside Beijing burst into cheers, already buoyed by a message from President Hu Jintao who announced that the liftoff was "the glory of our great motherland." Then, Yang fished around...
...expedition more important for its symbolism than its science, Yang's flag-waving exercise sent an unexpected message to Planet Earth: not only had China joined the U.S. and Russia in the exclusive club of spacefaring nations, it wanted to celebrate the achievement with the whole world. For the first time in centuries, China, ever sensitive of its past as the isolated and reactionary "sick man of Asia," seemed confident of its own economic and political power, as comfortable strutting its stuff on the international stage as any member of the G-8. "Now, no one can look down...
...press corps-hung close to him. The visit went fine from what I could tell. Japan coughed up about $1 billion for Iraq and the greeting was warm enough although there?s gotta be something slightly wrong when the President spends over 24 hours raising money and showing the flag in central California on Wednesday and Thursday and then blows through Japan and the Philippines in under...
...mixed crowd of students, volunteers and older supporters responded well to the speech, rising for a standing ovation when Kerry stressed the need for accountability in the Oval Office. He paced in front of the auditorium as he spoke, without a tie but with a small American flag pin on his blazer’s lapel...
...front lawn, she spoke with canvassers about her new green jeep and her country, as a large American flag lapped against the side of her house. She said she supports Kerry, even if she is not completely committed...