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...demand more benefits from the World Trade Organization in September. Now comes a space effort designed to generate national pride and display the country's vigor. Along the way, Beijing will pick up military technology and, no doubt, some catchy consumer items to match the smoke detectors and cordless vacuum cleaners born of NASA. Above all, the piloted space program is good propaganda. "Just as England went to North America and made it British, China needs to stake its claim in space," says Xu Shijie, a spacecraft designer who has worked on the Shenzhou...
...They described their fears: looting, a security vacuum, and that’s exactly what we’ve seen,” she said...
...developing world to demand more benefits from the World Trade Organization. Now comes a space effort designed to unify the country and display national vigor. Along the way, Beijing will pick up military technologies and, no doubt, some catchy consumer items to match the smoke detectors and cordless vacuum cleaners born of nasa. Above all, the piloted space program is good propaganda. "Just as England went to North America and made it British, China needs to stake its claim in space," says Xu Shijie, a spacecraft designer at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics who has worked on altitude...
...conditioning Tea bags Neon light Teddy bears Crayola crayons Safety razors Vacuum cleaners Coffee filters...
Wolfgang Petersen, the German director who has won worldwide audiences for manly crises under the water (Das Boot), on its roiling surface (The Perfect Storm) and in the sky (Air Force One), wants to take The Iliad out of schoolroom memories. His notion is to vacuum off the cobwebs and make it a vivid adventure that will appeal equally to adults who have a yawning familiarity with the story and to children for whom Homer is only Bart's bald, dundering...