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...gathered at the Jokhang temple in Lhasa to select a new Panchen Lama, the second highest religious leader in Tibet. Traditional yak-butter lamps glowed as three ivory markers were placed inside a golden urn. Each marker was inscribed with the name of a Tibetan boy identified, during a six-year search, as a possible incarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama, who died in 1989. The urn was turned several times, and then a senior monk withdrew a marker bearing the name of Gyaincain Norbu, 6, who was quickly ushered into the room in golden robes and a yellow silk...
...six-year, 2.3 billion-mile odyssey will culminate Thursday when the Galileo spacecraft swings into orbit around Jupiter. "The accuracy of this is really amazing," says TIME's Leon Jaroff. "Scientists were able to make incredibly precise calculations to place Galileo in exactly the right place, using Venus and the Earth in a 'crack-the-whip' maneuver to boost the probe's velocity to give it sufficient speed to make it all the way to Jupiter." Also Thursday, a smaller probe released from Galileo 147 days earlier will enter Jupiter's atmosphere. "There won't be any dramatic pictures, just...
More than 8,700 Caterpillar workers have set down their picket signs now that their union has told them to end their 17-month strike. The United Auto Workers leadership called it quits despite a vote by workers on Sunday rejecting a six-year contract that would limit job security, create lower wage scales for some workers, limit union activity and give the company more power to schedule odd working hours without paying overtime. Caterpillar may be in no hurry to put the strikers back to work: the company has posted record profits with a combination of strikers who crossed...
AUNG SAN SUU KYI Wins six-year standoff as Burmese generals end her house arrest...
...first extended interview with a Western journalist since theBurmese military regime freed her from six years of house arrest this week, Nobel laureateAung San Suu KyitoldTIME Hong Kong bureau chief Sandra Burtonshe believes the junta has started down the path to democracy. "I believe that all thinking people must be ready to change with the times," Suu Kyi told Burton in the unfurnished front room of her lakeside home. "I hope that in the last six years they realize that what we want is change for the good of the nation, and that by cooperating they too may be able...