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...have multiple offspring if they were willing to pay big fines. The costs can be exorbitant for peasants like Li--$365 or more for the first additional child in Linyi, around four times the average annual net income in this impoverished region. But at least the Chinese now possess a modicum of choice in family matters, which they lacked a few years...
Then there's all that academic pressure (on me). Sure, my son will have a lot to learn, but he's smart, and he's not expected to possess kindergarten-level knowledge already, as, ahem, I am. Can someone explain the difference between a dolphin and a porpoise--quick? And the sky is blue why exactly...
...China's main focus Taiwan? Yes. An ultimate reunification with Taiwan, which Beijing sees as a renegade province, is the driving force for China's military modernization. Still, China "does not yet possess the military capability to accomplish with confidence its political objectives on the island, particularly when confronted with outside intervention," the report says...
TODAY NUCLEAR WORLD The U.S., Russia, China, France and Britain possess missiles capable of delivering a nuclear warhead thousands of miles away. Emerging nuclear states such as North Korea, India and Pakistan have shorter-range missiles...
...while animals may not possess true ethics or morality, Bekoff, De Waal and a growing number of their colleagues think fairness and cooperation may be the forerunners of those qualities, just as the apelike brain of our distant ancestor Lucy was the forerunner of our own, much more sophisticated minds. After all, Lucy was no Einstein-but without her, the leap from the tiny brains of primitive mammals to the subtle intelligence of an Einstein could never have occurred. --Reported by Dan Cray/Los Angeles and Wendy Grossman/Houston