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...promises to be one of the world's most technologically sophisticated when it takes off for the first time in March 2008. Onboard are the most advanced avionics, propulsion and malfunction-monitoring systems available. With room for 90 passengers (up to 105 in a stretch version), "the ARJ21 will prove China is striving to become a world-class aircraft manufacturer," says Wang Yawei, vice president of the ARJ21's financier, the state-run China Aviation Industry Corporation I (AVIC...
...listen to calls of suspected terrorists in the U.S. But the act would authorize most other warrantless intercepts of calls between targets or suspects overseas and phones in the U.S. The measure requires that intelligence officials submit procedures to a court before starting such blanket snooping. Officials must also prove that the law isn't being used to launch fishing expeditions that needlessly infringe on the privacy of innocent Americans. To check up on this, the legislation would make a secret court audit the surveillance program periodically and require Congress to reauthorize it in two years...
...have a sense that the junta's victory may yet prove Pyrrhic. The brutal crackdown has shattered the relationship between the generals and the monks. The regime spent years building new pagodas and donating alms to cultivate its image as protector of the faith. It can hardly claim that role now. The assault on a revered institution may yet cause divisions in the army's ranks. "Soldiers are humans," says a Burmese analyst with close ties to the military. "They have families. They have monks among their relatives." Already stories are being told of monks damning to hell the soldiers...
...plan has drawn its share of criticism, largely from those who argue that a technological school and a liberal arts education are mutually incompatible. But unlike Eliot and Pritchett, today’s faculty and administrators feel they have the opportunity—and the obligation—to prove those critics wrong...
...seen the world and grown as a person, and I was now ready to prove myself a worthy student. I was going to get back together with Harvard. To do that, one needs the best “lawyer” that can be found...