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...fact won private meetings with influential Chinese officials. In the past year China's stance on Sudan has undergone a major shift. From ignoring complaints about its Sudan links, China has appointed its own special envoy for Darfur and has sent aid to the peacekeeping force in the conflict region. U.S. President George W. Bush's former envoy to Sudan, Andrew Natsios, publicly praised China's stance, and even Jill Savitt, director of the activist group Dream for Darfur, acknowledged that Beijing has taken some measures to reduce suffering in Sudan...
...olympic torch is to be lit in Beijing, officially starting the 29th Summer Games. But diplomats in the Chinese capital believe that a high-level game of chicken has already begun - one that has now turned deadly in Lhasa, the capital of what China calls the Tibetan Autonomous Region, and in neighboring areas, according to Tibetan exiles and human-rights groups...
...nightmare for China's top leadership, but one, some diplomats believe, that could not have taken anyone in the central government completely by surprise. The leadership in Beijing is pitted against its domestic opponents, who include not only Tibetan dissidents but also separatist groups in the heavily Muslim region of Xinjiang as well as human-rights and political activists throughout the country...
...Laboratory, just executed a dramatic dive through an icy geyser that reaches 950 miles (1,530 km) into space from the Saturnian moon Enceladus, and there are plans to follow that up with even higher-risk maneuvers. In May NASA's Phoenix Lander will set down in Mars' arctic region in search of water ice. And later this month NASA and the European Space Agency will retire their Ulysses solar surveyor after a 17-year mission that has reframed our understanding...
...mention cooling to the researchers behind the Phoenix Mars Lander. Their ship will have just six months to sample and study the water ice at the Martian north pole before -200°F (-130°C) winter temperatures hit the region. "We last until the sun goes down. Then we freeze to death," says principal investigator Peter Smith, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Before it does, Phoenix Lander will probably offer a first look at actual Martian water ice rather than the dry water scars of millenniums past. To do that, the lander will...