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...RESIGNED. LI LIMING, head of China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention; to take responsibility for the mainland's outbreak of SARS in April. Li quit after a government investigation found that his mismanagement facilitated a mini-outbreak of the respiratory disease in one of his agency's labs, which eventually killed the mother of a graduate student who worked at the lab and who was exposed to the virus...
...Okazaki admits this is Mitsubishi's "last chance." Analysts say it may already be too late. Japan has 11 companies making cars and trucks, while the total market has shrunk by about a quarter since its 1990 peak. Mitsubishi's market share in passenger- and mini-cars has sunk to a meager 3.8%. The company "could disappear tomorrow, and no one would miss it," says John Harris, a Tokyo-based auto consultant...
...winding down, Iran announced it was repudiating the agreement. Washington now wants the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions. But Iran, with its extensive ties with Iraq's majority Shi'a population, including some militias, has many ways to make life miserable for coalition forces in Iraq - which the mini-saga of the British sailors deftly signaled...
...poster-size, full-color work about God, man and comic strips. The verso displays Gary Panter's giant mandala of cartoon and fine-art characters through the ages. Ingeniously, when wrapped around the book, the poster forms a pocket on the front and back in which sit - surprise! - two mini-comix by John Porcellino and Ron Rege Jr. In a single package, "McSweeney's" explodes conventional notions of what comics should look like...
...curricular review report, which recommended the adoption of this calendar, suggested that the mini-term could be dedicated to classes or other curricular and extracurricular pursuits...