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...wild panda in a fight for territory, says Zhang Hemin, director of the Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda at Wolong. "Our researchers found him and brought him back. The doctor treated him briefly, then sent him back to the wild." Unfortunately for Xiang Xiang, the tough-love approach only compounded his problems. In a subsequent encounter with a woods-wise cousin, Xiang Xiang tried to escape by climbing a tree. The hapless bear fell out and, from what rangers could gather over their monitors, probably broke a leg. Since then, Xiang Xiang hasn't been seen. Still...
...perfected a new kind of action hero, a synthesis of Alan Alda and John Wayne who shows his feelings and frustrations--but just barely. As the reticent tough-guy doctor on Lost, which returns to ABC on Feb. 7, Fox acts as if he's forced against his will into greatness. And while he does stifle his emotions, he isn't afraid to cry. "The John Wayne idea was what a man wanted to be--not what a man is," he says, fingering the dog-tag necklace that has a hologram of his two kids. "I'd rather watch...
...main focus of the Feb. 9 Group of Seven industrial-nations meeting will be Japan's refusal to raise interest rates--weakening the yen and creating tough competition for European exporters...
Bush seems to think that historians smile upon Presidents who never give up, even when the going gets tough. But that's not quite right. Take Bush's hero, Truman, who regularly ranks among the top 10 Presidents of all time. One of the things historians admire about him is his willingness to acknowledge when victory was beyond reach. It started with China. In 1949, America's man in Beijing, Chiang Kai-shek, was steadily losing ground to communist rebels. Hawkish politicians and pundits demanded that Truman intervene, and when he didn't and China fell to Mao Zedong, they...
This isn’t a team that is following a leader right now, and that means it isn’t a team that’s winning at Yale, in the tough New Haven environment the Elis have set up. The Bulldogs by eight...