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...home now, amid the jumble of toys and papers strewn about their comfortable town house, Xue Donghua and Andrew are inseparable. "He used to be a very open child," the father says, "but now he is very sensitive?he won't leave me." A pile of newspapers, recording his pleas for Gao's freedom, lie on the floor. "We'll save them for her, so she can see what we have been doing," Xue says...
...Site Seeing Choose Your Virtual Weapon The U.S. TV show BattleBots, which last week started a run in the U.K., has a loyal cadre of fans who tune in to watch homemade robots slug it out until one of them is reduced to a pile of junk. Now BattleBots the website (www.battlebot.com) lets you put together a virtual robot, adding a tank tread here, a sawblade there, to see how it might look in action. As well as providing news of upcoming competitions, pro tips on bot-building and rules for entry, the site is one of the first...
...Burucoa, for instance, makes six figures a year as a corporate vice president at J.P. Morgan in London, but his dream is to become a "remote interior designer" and open a seaside restaurant. "If I can travel and pay the bills, I'm happy. I don't need to pile up millions." Easy, perhaps, for an investment banker to say. But unlike their American counterparts, few young adults in Europe spend waking hours monitoring the size of their stock portfolios. Instead, they are more concerned with maintaining balance, cultivating personal ties, appreciating leisure...
...home now, amid the jumble of toys and papers strewn about their comfortable town house, Xue Donghua and Andrew are inseparable. "He used to be a very open child," the father says, "but now he is very sensitive--he won't leave me." A pile of newspapers, recording his pleas for Gao's freedom, lie on the floor. "We'll save them for her, so she can see what we have been doing," Xue says...
...others are saying it would be disastrous to exclude the U.S. because many Americans are as concerned about the Bush administration's position as the Europeans are. And trying to pile on the pressure won't work either, because the administration clearly doesn't give a toss what the Europeans think. There's also a fear that this wave of anti-American sentiment may camouflage the fact that the E.U. countries themselves are behind on their efforts to reach their own emission-reduction targets, and that they still have to ratify the treaty...