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...abide by promises we made in the bidding period," a spokesman of the Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games was quoted as saying in a press release issued 20 minutes before the IOC statement. "The reporting by Chinese and international journalists through the internet is unhindered." At a rare press conference Friday, meanwhile, China's President and Communist Party chief Hu Jintao similarly told a small group of foreign reporters that "the Chinese government and the Chinese people have been working in real earnest to honor the commitments made to the international community...
...Kevin Eggan at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Christopher Henderson at Columbia University, the 13-person team reported online today in Science Express that they had generated motor neurons from the skin cells of two elderly patients with a rare form of ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, a progressive neurodegenerative condition. The new study marks an important first step on the road toward real stem-cell-based therapies, and also answers several plaguing questions about the pioneering stem-cell technique known as induced pluripotent stem cell, or iPS, generation...
...Terrorist attacks have become distressingly familiar in India. Since 2005, more than 520 people have been killed, and hundreds more injured, in 12 major bombings around the country. Claims of responsibility are rare, and Indian defense and intelligence analysts have long assumed that large-scale, coordinated bombings like the Ahmedabad attack are the handiwork of international, or Pakistani, terror networks. But experts are now coming to accept that the volume of recent attacks would not have been possible without a significant number of local recruits. "They are increasingly acquiring their own expertise," says B. Raman, former head of counterterrorism...
...with rare exceptions, like China's stint as the heavy in the latest season of 24, Hollywood acts as if modern China doesn't exist. Where the Soviet Union was a Hollywood baddie for decades, China lurks unobserved, like dark matter in the universe. Even the 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate replaced the Chinese with an evil corporation...
...Mugabe has long made a virtue out of his vilification in the West, casting himself as the champion of a fight against neo-imperialism. But his regime's blatant abuse of power has drawn rare criticism from fellow African leaders - a fact that appears to have rattled the man who has ruled Zimbabwe since overthrowing the racist white Rhodesian government in 1980. At his inauguration speech last month, Mugabe unexpectedly promised talks with the opposition on sharing power. Last week, Mugabe met Tsvangirai in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, and agreed to begin talks mediated by South African President Thabo Mbeki...