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...good example of Japan's strategy of selective excellence is the Hayabusa space probe. Launched in May 2003, the robotic craft reached a 300 m by 700 m asteroid called Itokawa last month and set about mapping it. The mission calls for the probe to descend to the surface of this small asteroid next month and remove rock samples before starting the 2.5-year journey home. If successful, the Hayabusa mission will mark the first time material has been recovered from an asteroid in space and returned to Earth...
...discuss notes from a conversation with Cheney aide I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby that turned up after her Sept. 30 testimony. Meanwhile, lawyers for possible indictment targets are boning up on the Espionage Act, used to charge Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon papers, say people close to the probe. Fitzgerald would face fewer hurdles proving a case under the statute, which bars transmitting "information relating to the national defense" to anyone not entitled to receive it, than under the more exacting Intelligence Identities Protection Act. But national-security lawyer Kate Martin says, "Civil libertarians have always objected to [the Espionage...
...Bush aide Karl Rove prepares for his fourth grand-jury appearance, the federal probe into who leaked CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity to the media is believed to be wrapping up. But the investigation has taken a toll on White House aides, many of whom now fear that the special counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald, is intent on issuing indictments. "Fitzgerald's office, although very professional, has been very aggressive in pursuing people," the adviser said. "These guys are bullies, and they threaten...
Fazio holds on, however, despite being under investigation in the same probe of the takeover bid. So what drives the decisions of Italy's top central banker? Some answers can be traced back to 2002, when Fazio traveled to the northern town of Lodi for a conference organized by Fiorani's bank, then called Banca Popolare di Lodi. During the afternoon break, the two men decided to stroll together through the center of town in front of a cadre of journalists. It was a blatant signal to all that Fazio had anointed Fiorani to be the next banker...
...there was the possibility that Miller was looking at more time in jail than she had bargained for. Although Fitzgerald is expected to finish this month, he has no obligation to do so. He could have boosted Miller's civil contempt charge to a criminal one or shifted the probe to a new grand jury, a step that could have meant more jail time for Miller...