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...significantly since then, the Chinese are on the verge of sending a Long March 2F rocket hurtling into space from a secret launch facility near the Gobi Desert. The payload: Shenzhou (divine vessel), a capsule carrying China's first astronaut. The mission: enter a low Earth orbit, circle the globe 14 times, then parachute to a landing zone on the Mongolian steppe. The goal: elevate China into the exclusive ranks of spacefaring nations...
Since the fall of Baghdad in April, American officials have scoured the globe in search of Saddam Hussein's legendary fortune. Now they think they have found a big chunk. According to a U.S. estimate, as much as $3 billion in Iraqi assets is sitting in Syrian government--controlled banks, a senior U.S. official tells TIME, and Washington is anxious to determine that the money is not funding violence against Americans in Iraq, or being drawn down by regime officials and supporters...
...highlights of both days are usually at the end of the afternoon, as the Championship Singles races for men and women close out Saturday’s events, and the Championship Eights, featuring national teams from around the globe, are the last scheduled events on Sunday...
...Blaine Saito ’04 is not as optimistic that the level of academic discussion would reach all corners of the globe. “While that’s nice to say, when debate gets so heated to the point of violence, it’s hard to construct a nuance, and without a constructive nuance we don’t get anywhere, and that could lead to rioting,” he says...
...always stressed the importance of empowering people with diabetes and forwarding the effort to have a more scientific evaluation of how good patient education programs were and how they could be improved,” Joslin President C. Ronald Kahn told The Boston Globe...