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WORLD BRIEFING A6 The Dalai Lama on work; Beijing's new professor; a portable med lab; and more...
...gunpowder rockets to a chair affixed with kites, ignited them and vanished in a plume of smoke, never to be heard from again. The modern program traces its roots to the 1950s, when the U.S. deported Qian Xuesen, one of its foremost rocket scientists at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, for being a suspected red. Qian returned to China, helped reverse-engineer a Russian R-2 rocket (an improved version of the infamous German V-2) left behind by Soviet advisers and eventually oversaw the launch of China's first satellite, in 1970. The mission electrified millions...
...Shenzhou bears a resemblance to the Soyuz, but with substantial Chinese modifications. In a clear advance over the Soyuz, the Shenzhou III employed a forward orbital module with a solar panel that remained in space. Future flights could one day dock with the module to form a cheap space lab. Most experts say China deserves the credit for its program. "If someone sells you instructions to make a car and you build it, it's yours," says Joan Johnson-Freese, an expert on China's space program at the Naval War College in Rhode Island...
...represents a large commitment to diversity at the academy and she has an outstanding lab unparalleled in the department,” said Jennifer A. Richeson, one of Ambady’s former graduate students. Psychologists at Harvard said Ambady was one of the best in the field of social psychology, having won several prestigious national research and teaching awards...