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...told Qian in New York that the idea was "too dangerous to justify." Qian replied that Beijing was doing nothing that conflicted with international law. According to the Post,Chinaplans to build two 300-megawatt pressurized water reactors in Iran, as well as transfer a dose of its nuclear know...
...first glance, Gaxiola's gaudy, sequin-bedecked costume and psychedelic lizard skin boots may scream overkill more than dedicated passion. But footage of Gaxiola as he works shows a jack-of-all-trades clearly inspired by a deep reserve of energy and practical know-how. For thirteen years, the Maestro had his own day, Maestro Day, in his hometown of Albany, California. The event, free to the public and held in the high school gym, featured Gaxiola singing modern day cowboy ballads, playing the piano and painting quick cowboy portraits on stage (and one thousand homemade cookies baked...
...risk of losing patent secrets is heightened by Chinese demands that foreigners share their know-how as a condition for doing business in China. "The real danger is that America's best companies will be forced to sell their technology crown jewels to foreign competitors in exchange for market access," says Alan Tonelson of the Economic Strategy Institute in Washington...
...expertise and capital, they contend, is inevitable. "The underlying skills in China are so great that any American company that transfers technology will create rivals," says Roy ( Grow, a political scientist at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. The solution, Grow adds, is for American firms to develop new know-how faster than they can give away their skills...
...handful of conspirators in a garage, like the World Trade Center bombers, would almost certainly lack the money, technical know-how or laboratory equipment to fashion nuclear raw materials into a working weapon. In fact, experts believe that it would be extremely difficult for most terrorist groups to make an atom bomb without the resources of a friendly country. The task, says Spurgeon Keeny, a physicist who is executive director of the Arms Control Association in Washington, is like building an automobile. Many people know how one is assembled, "but there is a lot of difference between that and sitting...