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...Chinese meteorological satellite drifting 535 miles above the Earth. But the strike - which smashed the seven-year-old orbiter into a cloud of space flotsam - may also have been directed at a target closer at hand. Taiwan, which Beijing considers a renegade province, has long been the object of the mainland's saber-rattling missile tests and amphibious-assault war games. The demonstration of an ability to destroy satellites in orbit - belatedly confirmed by Beijing this week - could mean China is ready to up the stakes. "Symbolically, it's quite an important message to send to Taiwan," says Andrew Yang...
...needs a strong LDP showing in July to stay in office, refused to see Higashikokubaru's win as a loss for his party, instead hailing it as "the voice" of the people demanding reform. With his own approval ratings falling below 40%, Abe could be the next object of reform himself...
...Children's Hour", were a year older. Peter O'Toole, in "How to Steal a Million", was three years younger, and "Two for the Road"'s Albert Finney seven years her junior - and the first Audrey co-star who seemed ready to treat her as a sex object. Yet to find someone whose roguish masculinity complemented her ethereal femininity, she would have to come out of retirement in 1976 for Sean Connery and Robin and Marian...
...conscious of a rich and detailed world in front of our eyes. Yet outside the dead center of our gaze, vision is amazingly coarse. Just try holding your hand a few inches from your line of sight and counting your fingers. And if someone removed and reinserted an object every time you blinked (which experimenters can simulate by flashing two pictures in rapid sequence), you would be hard pressed to notice the change. Ordinarily, our eyes flit from place to place, alighting on whichever object needs our attention on a need-to-know basis. This fools us into thinking that...
...buzzing again, in just the same pattern. The scientists couldn't explain it; they thought that perhaps the monkeys were subtly moving in anticipation of being fed. Through a series of experiments, however, they finally established that the neurons started firing whenever the monkeys saw a person grasp an object. It was as if the monkeys were mentally mirroring the action they observed...