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...works, The Norman Conquests, was a cycle of three plays that recounted the events of a weekend from three different parts of the same house. One Ayckbourn play moves backward in time. Another conflates all the action in a house, from living room to attic, into a single stage space. His ingenious, nearly unstageable Intimate Exchanges has 16 permutations, depending on the choices made by characters at key points in the action...
...feat would be both a technological and public relations triumph. "Beijing is signaling to the rest of world that it is a first-rank space power," says Dean Cheng, China analyst with the CNA Corp., a U.S.-based think tank. "It is capable of doing things only the U.S. and Soviet Union have done. It is ahead of Japan and the European Space Agency in terms of space flight...
...prime time between 9:07p.m. and 10:27 p.m. The mission will be the country's first to carry three astronauts - or hangtianyuan, as they are called in Chinese - into orbit. The spacecraft, a modified version of the Russian Soyuz vessel, will carry a Russian and a Chinese-designed space suit. "This is big," says Joan Johnson-Freese, an expert on the Chinese space program at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. "It's not easy to design a space suit that's flexible and has life support...
...Boming and Jing Haipeng. "Shenzhou VII is another breakthrough in China's development of manned spaceflght, and we are entrusted with an honorable mission with historical significance," Zhai told a pre-launch press conference on Sept. 24. "As an astronaut, it is the greatest honor to launch into space on behalf of our motherland...
...time when the reputation of "Made in China" is once again being battered by a product safety scandal - this time chemical-tainted milk - China will see a successful space mission as a welcome fall extension of its Summer Olympic glory. "When combined with a successful Olympics, it becomes very difficult for China to be [seen] as a developing country," says Yan Xuetong, director of the Institute of International Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing. "With the huge amount of money spent and the high-tech capacity, the two things will make the world believe that China is a developed country...