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...into two categories: those who see Taiwan's future as going it alone-the DPP's chief constituency-and those who don't want to provoke China by promoting independence for Taiwan-the traditional base for the DPP's archrival, the Kuomintang (KMT). But if Taoyuan voter Chou Hui-mei, a 45-year-old furniture importer, is anything to go by, Chen's strategy is having some success bridging that ideological gap. Chou's parents were mainlanders who fled to the island along with Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists in 1949, and she herself was once a member...
...panel prices drop, so will margins, potentially forcing some weaker players out of the business. There are already signs of a shake-out. In September, Taiwan's Chi Mei Optoelectronics halted construction on a panel factory. Japan's Mitsubishi Electric said it will phase out production of large LCD panels altogether, filling its TV sets with panels made by other companies. Even market leader LG.Philips LCD, a joint venture between Korea's LG Electronics and the Netherlands' Royal Philips Electronics, reported a 15% drop in net profit in the third quarter due to a decline in panel prices. Competition will...
...stereotypical resting pose of birds." The sleeping dragon was found sitting on its hindlimbs, its forelimbs folded at its side, its head tucked under its left elbow and its long tail curled around its body. Experts believe modern birds sleep in a similar position to conserve heat; presumably Mei long did too, which suggests that the animal was warm-blooded. If that was the case, says Norell, it also offers an explanation for feathers: "It's likely they first evolved for insulation rather than flight." Birds simply found another use for them...
While the Pompeii layer preserved natural body postures, it was too coarse to take imprints of soft tissues and delicate structures, so there's no way of knowing whether Mei long had feathers. But other strata of the Liaoning fossil beds are much finer grained. That's where paleontologists found the feathered tyrannosaur, which Xu and Norell named Dilong paradoxus ("surprising emperor dragon"). It's one of the oldest known tyrannosaurs, and one of the emu-size specimens has unmistakable traces of primitive feathers on its tail and jaw. Those filaments, which are about three-quarters of an inch long...
...they hardly mean that all the details of the dinosaur-bird link have been ironed out. While current thinking favors speedy predators like velociraptors as the direct ancestors of modern birds, both Chiappe and Norell argue that the birds' forebears could just as easily have been troodontids like Mei long or even oviraptors, another related type of dinosaur. (Several years ago in Mongolia, Norell and colleagues unearthed a fossil oviraptor sitting on its egg-filled nest.) And then there's also the open question of how flight evolved. Mei long, says Chiappe, was clearly sleeping on the ground...