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...lifted off an eager astronaut and returned to Earth a national hero. LIEUT. COLONEL YANG LIWEI orbited the globe 14 times during a 21-hr. mission before touching down in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, making China the third country to successfully send a man into space. Upon his return, Yang had only one regret: "The scenery was very beautiful. But I did not see the Great Wall...
...occurred while processing this directive]International replacements are proving to be something of a problem: Thus far, the U.S. has managed to sign up two contingents, one comprising some 9,200 soldiers led by Poland and composed of smallish detachments from Ukraine, Bulgaria, Hungary, Spain, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Romania, Mongolia, Fiji, the Dominican Republic and others. Britain will lead a second detachment composed of Western European NATO members such as Italy and the Netherlands. The operative word is small: While Spain is offering 1,300 troops and Italy up to 3,000, Lithuania will send 43, the former Yugoslav Republic...
Hackenbracht opted to leave the Beijing internship, which she was slated to begin in early June, rather than pursue the position in Mongolia that the Department of State in Washington had offered her. Instead, she is staying in Cambridge, researching her thesis and volunteering with Evening With Champions...
...four-day trip through Siberia, Kieran befriended a German backpacker going to work with children in Mongolia and managed to escape from a man he believed to be a member of the Russian mob. He then boarded a train to Mongolia, followed by a 35-hour bus ride through the Gobi desert to Beijing. In this bus, which Kieran describes as the “modern equivalent of a slave galley,” the passengers lay in four-level bunks. They slept with their hands shielding their faces to keep their noses from slamming against the higher bunk when...
...heroes. Irish antiwar activist Caoimhe Butterly didn't spend much time with British war hero Captain James Moulton, but everyone else mixed it up nicely. Nebahat Akkoc, a Kurdish women's-rights advocate in Turkey, was eager to meet Irishwoman Christina Noble, who works with children in Vietnam and Mongolia. It turns out Noble is expanding her work into Akkoc's region, and will be bunking with her when she visits. Noble is also a big fan of Bono, and she beamed at having her picture taken with him. "Thanks for the kiss," she said. "It made my night." Thanks...