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...over allegations of Chinese nuclear espionage, has been an embarrassing failure for a government that appears to have been forced to accept a plea agreement to avoid further humiliation. After all, the deal came days before the deadline on which the government would have been forced to hand over thousand of pages of documents explaining why Lee had been arrested. And in his ire, the judge expressed regret Wednesday that the government hadn't been forced to account for itself in this...
...probe the city's suburbs. To the west, the national parkland of the Blue Mountains, named for the eucalyptus oils that evaporate from the gum trees and tint the air, is a 10,000-sq.-km wilderness of heavily wooded gullies and forbidding cliffs, home to well over a thousand species of plants. Only six years ago the Wollemi pine was added to the list. These prehistoric trees, previously unknown, were found in one of the region's remote canyons, where they were thought to have grown undisturbed for five million years. To the city's north, the Ku-ring...
...help steal some of that thunder, the former advertising man is starting cultural proceedings a month early, and making the program as loud and large-scale as possible. If Mahler's choral Symphony No. 8 for a thousand voices at the SuperDome on Aug. 19 doesn't get attention, nothing will. "It will celebrate both things," says Schofield. "The merger of sport...
...rebels in a thousand small ways, showing up at interviews without the usual grim-faced handler and shrugging off a 9:30 p.m. curfew in favor of a refill of iced coffee. The boyish bowl cut has been replaced by long, highlighted locks and a Sporty Spice wardrobe of tight T shirts, baggy clamdiggers and unlaced Nikes...
...love online or a one-shot seminar like learning to test your cholesterol. But for a longer-term course on a serious subject, expect to pay $30 to $200 for a class for personal enrichment, like writing personal essays or improving your golf swing, and up to a few thousand dollars for a degree-granting class...