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...promptly released a statement saying that they would begin to further investigate this issue. And the national government is just as guilty of this inconsistency. As writer Phillip Coorey from Australia’s The Sunday Mail noted, “It took the US Government 12 hours to launch a ‘full and immediate’ investigation into Janet Jackson’s exposed breast. It took 10 days to launch what it says will be an independent commission into erroneous weapons of mass destruction claims in Iraq...
...North Korean offensive or a massive refugee influx, “sunshine” has in practice meant appeasement. Its moral vacuity was laid bare this past August, when a German human rights worker, Dr. Norbert Vollertsen, was beaten by South Korean riot police while trying to launch a flock of hot air balloons carrying radios toward North Korea. A few days later, he led a peaceful anti-Kim Jong Il protest outside a press center in Taejon and was assaulted by North Korean reporters. President Roh quickly apologized for Dr. Vollertsen’s activities...
...solid, fresh story ideas. He should, if Seinfeld is any indication, be entering the relaxing children's book--writing part of his career. And while he is indeed writing Raymie, Dickie and the Bean: Why I Love and Hate My Brothers with his two brothers, he is hoping to launch a career as a leading man in films...
These homegrown carmakers will have to compete with multinationals like General Motors, Ford, Toyota, Volkswagen and Citroen, all of which have invested heavily in Chinese joint ventures and are muscling for market share. GM, which has made Buicks in China since 1999, will soon launch top-of-the-line Cadillacs and plans to increase total production 50% in the next two years. In a first for the country, Beijing recently announced it will allow GM to import cars made overseas without going through a Chinese partner. Ford plans to increase production sevenfold, to 150,000 cars a year. Volkswagen, maker...
...according to plan, Flight 158 will take off this week from Kourou in French Guiana, soaring up and away over the tiny South American country's lush equatorial forests and sandy Atlantic beaches. Flight 158 is no ordinary tourist shuttle, though. It's an Ariane-5G rocket that will launch the Rosetta spacecraft on an ambitious journey halfway across the solar system to intercept and land on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which is currently streaking across space at more than 100,000 km/h inside the orbit of Jupiter. "What's totally obsessing me is that we're launching into a comet...