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...Several months later the clans deployed homemade bombs, fashioned from oxygen canisters and filled with gunpowder and metal shards. Li Lan's 23-year-old daughter was eight months pregnant and sitting at home when one of the bombs tore through her living room, blowing off her right leg and most of her face. The family dragged her coffin into the middle of the road to protest police inaction. Police forced Li Lan to bury her daughter, and that's when she became an activist partner of Liang. She repeatedly went to police headquarters to demand greater punishment...
DIED. MAX PERUTZ, 87, groundbreaking molecular biologist; in Cambridge, England. Perutz and colleague John Kendrew won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for uncovering the structure of the organic molecule hemoglobin, a key to transporting oxygen and carbon dioxide through the body...
...wasn't quite like landing on the moon?there was oxygen, atmosphere, lots of Hello Kitty?but the 13 brave Chinese tourists who took their first steps on Taiwanese soil last week knew they were on a historic mission. After 50 years, Taiwan is allowing mainland Chinese tourists to visit. The real change, however, is coming from China, where top Beijing officials invited Taiwan's ruling, pro-independence party to cross the Strait and spoke of opening direct trading links soon. After years of saber rattling, the mainland is recognizing that mean doesn't work in Taiwan, while strong economic...
...shouldered a double load, climbed to the South Col, descended to the previous night's camp, shouldered another double load and only then was he able to induce the Sherpas to carry on. On that trip, he came close to reaching Everest's summit, but terrible weather and primitive oxygen equipment thwarted the group's ascent at 8,610 m, giving Hillary's team its shot the next year...
...However much oxygen Enron has pumped into Democrats, it doesn't change the fact that Bush has the highest sustained approval ratings in memory--and a monumental set of tasks ahead of him. That explains why, after delivering his State of the Union speech Tuesday, he planned to hit the road for two days selling his proposals to the public. Many are sure to be popular: more money for defense, intelligence gathering, homeland security and border controls and more tools for police and fire fighters. If Bush has had to shelve his plans to reform Medicare and Social Security--money...