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...even win a local conflict with the U.S. However, realists within the Chinese military now accept that it might take two decades to catch up with the U.S., so China has adopted a more pragmatic approach. In the short term, it increasingly views military force as a political tool to drag Taiwan into negotiations on Beijing's terms and deter the U.S. from interfering. "The question the Chinese are asking now," says a Western military attach? in Beijing, "is can they achieve their goals before the Americans have a chance to intervene by using a rapid, limited action...
...quite enthusiastic about using animation as a pedagogical tool in biological science,” Losick said, citing chromosome replication as a biological process which might be better understood through his project...
...future direction is to be a tool and to have other organizations come to us and partner with us so we can be more a mainstream part of undergraduate extracurricular life,” says Elizabeth G. Frieze ’04, chair of the IOP civics program, which works with the Phillips Brooks House Association...
...cell's walls, causing it to die. Early work in mice looks promising, though any potential drug based on this discovery would have to be administered immediately after exposure, before the anthrax germ had released its toxins. In addition, scientists have found that lysin could be a useful tool for picking up the presence of even trace amounts of anthrax in samples of air or from exposed surfaces. And it yields results faster than current methods...
...even a conformist society has certain hot buttons that are better left unpushed. Last week's launch of a computerized national ID system, which tags every citizen with a unique 11-digit number, triggered vehement protests throughout the country by those who fear Big Government is getting an efficient tool to invade their privacy. Some local prefectures refused to go along: Yokohama, the country's second-largest city, made participation voluntary, while three other municipalities opted out. Similar ID-card networks are being introduced in Malaysia and Hong Kong with little public outcry. But a survey by the Asahi Shimbun...