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...Lott announced Tuesday that Senate investigations have found that the transfer of satellite technology to China aided that country's military. But the GOP may be reaching by trying to link the supply of technology designed to improve the safety of Chinese rockets to alleged interference by Beijing in U.S. politics. As Branegan notes, "If it's in America's commercial interests to launch American satellites on Chinese rockets -- as the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations all believed -- then it's clearly in America's interests to protect its $200 million satellites by making sure those rockets don't blow...
...river slows down as it emerges from the Three Gorges onto the plains, but the impatience for wealth and success only increases. Wuhan, China's fifth largest city, is the transfer point for cargo from oceangoing ships to smaller boats heading further upriver, and has long been a center of commerce. Here are department stores with imported brands, stock-trading houses, U.S. fast-food chains--and "Balls," a newly opened NBA theme bar run by a former car salesman from Taiwan. Not so slick as Shanghai, Wuhan still has its pretensions, enough to attract people such as "Johnny" Wang Liang...
Mike was not alarmed by large campaign contributions. He understood that a satellite company needing a White House waiver to transfer technology to China might be generous to the Democratic National Committee and that a financial-services concern that wanted to squash a consumer-protection clause would feel inspired to support the campaign of Alfonse D'Amato, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. He wasn't opposed to the system; he was opposed to ethanol. He believed that using corn for anything but feeding people or livestock was against the laws of nature...
...number of transfer students admitted was decreased by 30 students to compensate for the increase in the class...
Springer, a transfer from Division III Middlebury, stopped 37 UNH shots, including several breakaways by the Wildcats. Despite the final result of the playoff contest--a 2-1 overtime loss--it, like the loss to Northeastern in the Beanpot Final, was a clear indication that Harvard could compete with the strongest teams in the nation...