Word: probed
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...Last fall China launched the unmanned Chang'e lunar probe. The next steps for the lunar program are a soft landing with a moon rover slated for 2012 and launching another rover and returning with samples in 2017. While there have been declarations by some space officials of when China could put a man on the moon - Ouyang Ziyuan, the chief scientist of China's Chang'e lunar probe, once said 2017; the deputy head of the Shenzhou program said 2020 - there is no official timetable. The U.S., the only nation to land astronauts on the moon, says it hopes...
...governor's family. The investigation has since been painted by John McCain and Palin backers as a purely partisan exercise, particularly because the committee chair, state senator Hollis French, is an Anchorage Democrat who made several seemingly prejudicial statements to the media early on, including that the probe could yield an "October surprise" right before the election. Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton says French has already made up his mind about the governor's guilt and at this point is "just leading people into an ambush...
...under the information that a Taliban commander was in the area, bombs were dropped in the village as a large crowd milled the streets mourning the death of a local leader. Devastation resulted—though an initial U.S. investigation reported five to seven civilian casualties, a later U.N. probe revealed that the number was closer to 92, a number that included the mutilated remains of many women and children. As this sobering report makes clear, the United States still has much work to do in Afghanistan, where the number of terrorist attacks and support for the Taliban insurgency have...
...formula was sickening infants, China announced an investigation. Days later, it emerged that more than 1,000 babies were sick, many contracting kidney stones, after consuming melamine-tainted formula. At least two babies have died. On Sept. 13, China said that 19 people have been detained in the ensuing probe. Some critics, however, have suggested China knew about the link between the sick babies and malamine-laced formula months ago - well before the Summer Olympics in Beijing - but did not investigate until external pressure left them no choice...
...full cooperation with the legislature - "Hold me accountable," she told Alaskans - including testifying in front of the inquiry, which is also looking into allegations that her staff improperly accessed Wooten's personnel file. She also requested that the state attorney general conduct his own investigation alongside the legislature's probe. But Thomas Van Flein, the lawyer she had to hire because the attorney general, Talis Colberg, also called Monegan about Wooten and therefore could be a witness, had Palin take the unusual step this week of filing an ethics complaint - against herself. Ethics complaints are heard by the three-member...