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...Despite the launch's national significance, China has so far released only a modicum of information about the manned maiden voyage. Unlike the seven U.S. astronauts on the pioneering Mercury mission, who became heroes before they even lofted skyward, the identity of only two of China's 14 taikongyuan, or "space pilots," has been released. All that ordinary Chinese know about them is they're each about 1.7 m tall, weigh 65 kg and served as jet-fighter test pilots who "are No. 1 in physical status and psychological quality," according to statements by senior space official Zhang Houying...
...career trajectory provides a wellspring for conjuring up determined female leads: she clawed her way into the male-dominated TV business, starting as an assistant at a local production company and writing scripts on the side. At the same time she married her longtime boyfriend (though keeping her maiden name, Kitagawa) because, as she explains, "I got so busy that the only way we could spend time together was to get married." It took her nearly three years to finish her first drama, a sci-fi adventure, which was bought for less than $500 and turned into a made...
...must let a little air out of Dhamija's balloons, however, to realize how close his perch at the top of the industry is to the ground. After taxes and exceptional costs, e-bookers' maiden first-quarter "profit" of $175,000, turned into an $8.1 million loss. But e-bookers has shown that it knows how to reach the black ink, and as any old-economy travel agent will tell you, it's the destination that really counts. --By Blaine Greteman/London
...speed and a payload of 24 two-thousand-lb guided weapons in its three separate bomb bays. The bomber dropped a third of the powerful JDAMs used in the most recent Gulf War even though it flew only about one percent of the sorties. Quite a machine for my maiden flight...
...will be. That's indicative of the biggest complaint: European railroads are run haphazardly by bloated monopolies immune to the concept of service. Rail freight still only moves around Europe today at an average of 18 km/h; even George Stephenson managed to go faster on some stretches of his maiden run 178 years ago. And passengers sometimes don't do much better. Linda Bienge, a 39-year-old clerk in Berlin's criminal court, was traveling back to the German capital from Dresden one evening recently when her train came to a standstill for almost two hours. "I was fuming...