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...more spooks "as soon as feasible." Sources say Goss's plan is to go back to basics: hide more spies posing, for example, as cultural or economic attachés in embassy-based CIA stations, and reopen stations that closed when the cold war ended. Camp Peary, the CIA's secret training center in eastern Virginia, runs a roughly six-month course to mint new spies for such postings. Classes at the Farm, as it's called, are packed, officials...
SMOKING It's no secret that smoking is bad for you, but secondhand smoke is proving more dangerous than anyone suspected. Two studies showed that women who don't smoke but live or work with people who do have a 27% increased risk of breast cancer and are as much as twice as likely to develop cervical tumors. Another study showed that children raised by smokers have as much as three times greater risk of developing lung cancer when they grow up. A fourth study found that the grandchildren of women who smoked while pregnant are more than twice...
...secret that China's red-hot industrial growth has inflicted woeful harm to the environment. Water supplies are particularly at risk. "Water is the biggest environmental problem in China," says Turner of the China Environment Forum. At a conference in Beijing last month, Chinese Vice Minister of Construction Qiu Baoxing said the country is "facing a water crisis more severe and urgent than any other country in the world." In Harbin, there were obvious signs that the incident had frayed the people's faith in their rulers. Trains and planes out of the city were jammed. Near the village...
...when Hwang's main international collaborator abruptly ended their partnership, citing ethical concerns. On Nov. 21, Hwang's associate Roh Sung Il admitted that he had paid about 20 women $1,500 each for their eggs, a practice since declared illegal. "I had to keep it secret," Roh told Time, adding that Hwang's cloning breakthroughs would have been impossible without a steady supply of eggs...
...takes on two of the more pressing moral issues of the age: how to do good in the world and whether it matters. Her previous novels - The Joy Luck Club (she also co-wrote director Wayne Wang's 1993 movie version), The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses and The Bonesetter's Daughter - were all best sellers focusing on the bond between mothers and daughters, the latter often Chinese-American like Tan. Uncharacteristically, Saving Fish is mostly about politics, and it's set mostly in Burma, not China or Tan's native northern California. It's also unsettling...