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...probably a good thing Chung is used to hard knocks. For months, the co-chairman of South Korea's World Cup Organizing Committee has been dropping coy hints about running in the country's presidential election this December?an election that will likely be as rough-and-tumble as an England-Argentina match. Now that South Korea's can-do football team has battled its way to the semifinals, the nation is awash in feel-good vibes and a newfound sense of national unity. All that is rubbing off on Chung. The latest polls give him 15% in a race...
...Japanese government's Humanoid Robotics Project set out five years ago to deliver a robot versatile enough to perform hard labor in hazardous conditions. Some $40 million has been spent but the project's HRP-1 robot still suffers from poor visual recognition and has trouble walking on rough terrain. Likewise, ASIMO understands only the simplest of commands and isn't dexterous enough to wield a mop. Yet it costs more to lease than a Lamborghini. "We want to improve ASIMO to make it marketable as soon as possible. But it's not at a stage where we can draft...
...sequels, the script is a rehash of the original: in an international football tournament, the losing team claims to have been done in by incompetent referees. Matters take a particularly ugly turn when a group of irate players, smarting from defeat, surround and rough up the official in front of TV cameras. Aghast, football's governing body promises to deal severely with the athletes to ensure that this kind of behavior doesn't happen again...
...dove for her pillow in her Hong Kong hotel room after a rough day traveling, Swedish businesswoman Margareta Anderssen spotted something moving on the desk. Inside a small bowl was some colorful plastic sea-stuff, sand and, unmistakably, a live, tail-flapping goldfish. "Hi!" read a message stuck on the bowl. "What am I doing here?" the cheeky note asked. "Let's face it. You're in Hong Kong alone and maybe you need an ear to talk to at night. I'm a great listener. I'm here as long as you want me, but if you're tired...
...from the University of Chicago. Economist Milton Friedman, who was to become a guru to future Thatcher adviser Alan Walters, "rejected the socially conscious economics that had dominated the thinking of democratic governments since the Great Depression of the 1930s," writes Beckett. Under Pinochet and Thatcher, emphasis on the rough-and-tumble of the free market "had unpleasant implications for the trade unions, the poor and the other left-wing or vulnerable interest groups to whom British politicians had been paying increasing attention since the Second World War." It was, as Beckett notes, two members of that postwar political generation...