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...morning, Tokyo time, Japan's Princess Kiko - the wife of Prince Akishino, Emperor Akihito's second son - gave birth to her first boy. Because Crown Princess Masako has borne only a single daughter, and because Japanese law allows only males to ascend to the Chrysanthemum Throne, Kiko's 7.5 lb. baby will almost certainly be the future Emperor of Japan. For the Japanese royal family and its core conservative supporters, the infant prince is cause for both joy and relief. His birth is a guarantee that the supposedly unbroken line of male succession to the throne will continue...
...lower, less accurate reading of emissions. In November the U.S. Supreme Court will address the same measurement question in a case out of North Carolina. All those battles technically address smog and soot, not mercury, but where the first two go, the third follows. "Power plants are the 800-lb. gorilla," says John Walke, a project director with the Natural Resource Defense Council and a former attorney for the EPA. "Their [mercury] output is extraordinary...
DIED. Bubba, 24, 154-lb. "super grouper" at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium who in 2002, after cancer was diagnosed, became the first known fish to receive chemotherapy, inspiring and energizing children afflicted with cancer nationwide; of various conditions and old age; in Chicago...
...protest in the streets and revolution in the hills 1966-1976 War in Vietnam, Nixon in China and Man on the Moon commander of the Royal Hussars' regiment, the British leader locked on her target with a laser beam and pulled the trigger, sending a 6-lb. practice shell 1,000 yds. directly to its mark. "I loved it!" exclaimed Thatcher. Peking Jan. 6, 1986 Life is getting better, fast, for many Chinese. Industrial production has leaped along with food output. Early in 1985 it was increasing at an annual rate of 23%, a pace Deng Xiaoping and his planners...
With such rueful hindsight, Israel last month put in an urgent request for precision-guided, 5,000-lb. bunker busters, and the Bush Administration complied, the intelligence source told TIME. And with the New York Times last week reporting that Israel has asked the U.S. to speed up delivery of short-range rockets armed with cluster bombs, Israel appears to be massively gearing up just as the U.N. Security Council--at long last--approved a cease-fire agreement...