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...their annual powwow. The anti-corruption unit's head, Sir Paul Condon, a former chief of Scotland Yard, will ensure that the current skippers have something besides their gripes to chew on: two days before, also in Melbourne, Condon will deliver the first review of his team's probe into alleged improper dealings between the now notorious former Indian bookmaker Mukesh Gupta and some of the game's biggest names, including Brian Lara (West Indies), Mark Waugh (Australia), Alec Stewart (England), Martin Crowe (New Zealand) and Arjuna Ranatunga (Sri Lanka...
...Whether the continuing probe into the Lockerbie bombing proceeds by public inquiry in Britain or by civil suit in the U.S.-or both-there will, of course, never be perfect justice. If al-Megrahi's appeal fails, he will be up for parole in Glasgow in 20 years. Family members will be on hand to argue against his release. "It wasn't just one murder, it was 270 murders," says Brian Flynn, whose brother was one of them. "Twenty years in prison isn't nearly enough." But certainly nothing is enough. "My son is still dead, and that...
...that they're easily offended - the Libyans are kind people who smile easily, and they respond with curiosity to outsiders. Probe a little deeper, though, and their feelings are very mixed. On the one hand, their satellite dishes and cell phones and Internet café s signal that they want to be part of the modern world from which they're isolated by sanctions - and from which Libya's rigidly organized social life discourages them from partaking. On the other hand, they feel unjustly victimized by the West, and many are ready to spring, unprompted, to Ghaddafi's defense...
Eventually, such optical sleights of hand could be used in switches and memory-storage devices at the heart of so-called quantum computers, which use subatomic effects for processing information. Such applications are a decade away at least; for now, physicists are happy to probe the strange interplay of light and matter. "It's great fun," says Lene Hau, leader of the Harvard-Rowland team. "And it's great science...
...China and abroad, according to Dai Xianglong, governor of the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank. Meanwhile, the U.S. Treasury Department reportedly is conducting an investigation into suspected wrongdoing at the BOC's New York City-based U.S. headquarters while Wang was in charge. The probe could cost the BOC millions of dollars in penalties...