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...like him--were busily at work plotting to beat him into space. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos just tested his first prototype for personal space travel in West Texas. John Carmack, co-creator of the Doom and Quake games, is test-firing rockets for the next generation of spaceliners and lunar landers near Dallas. In California, Jim Benson, founder of Compusearch, is developing a space taxi with a motor that runs on rubber and laughing gas. (Don't laugh. It works.) PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, who has a NASA contract to build a robotic Pony Express to the International Space...
...suited space rogue (played by Pat Mahoney, the band’s drummer), soon arrives to threaten peace and stability on Mother Moon. Murphy and Mahoney duel it out, throwing moon rocks and attacking each other with multicolored space auras. Of course, Murphy is triumphant in this lunar turf battle and even proves to be compassionate when he and his crew save the red-coat rogue from certain death by welcoming him into their ship. A kick-dance celebration among new friends ensues aboard the ship to the insightful lyrics, “We are North American scum...
...China prepares to celebrate the Lunar New Year this weekend, there is much hyperbole about the country's gleaming new skyscrapers, swelling middle class, dazzling preparations for the Olympics and so forth. But it is always worth getting a reality check on what underlies that rosy picture, the fact that China remains a highly repressive authoritarian state. I met recently in a small Beijing cafe with social activist Teng Biao and public-interest lawyer Li Heping, two unassuming gentlemen who are painfully well aware of the lengths the Chinese system will go to preserve itself...
...Vietnam Seven of Vietnam's 64 provinces have reported poultry outbreaks this year, and over 30,000 birds have been culled since December. Officials fear that caged birds being moved on crowded buses and trains during next month's Lunar New Year festivities could spread the virus throughout the country. Over the past four years, 42 people in Vietnam have died of avian...
Seven of Vietnam's 64 provinces have reported poultry outbreaks this year, and more than 30,000 birds have been culled since December. Officials fear that caged birds transported on crowded buses and trains during next month's Lunar New Year festivities could spread the virus throughout the country. Over the past four years, 42 people in Vietnam have died of avian...