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Yang was tried in August on the espionage charges but no conviction was made. The deadline for a verdict was Dec. 1, but he was not sentenced until yesterday...
...said, ‘I’m being held in an illegally prolonged detention in violation of Chinese law.’ He wanted to make it clear that the deadline [for a verdict] had passed,” Genser said...
Yang’s wife, Harvard Medical School researcher Christina X. Fu, held a press conference on Capitol Hill yesterday afternoon to protest the verdict with Genser and a number of members of U.S. Congress...
...iTunes, for its computers. But most third-party programs are written for Windows PCs and then adapted, sometimes poorly and often months later, for Apple machines. A notable exception arrives later this month when Microsoft releases the latest version of its ubiquitous Microsoft Office package for the Mac. My verdict: Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac is clearly superior to its PC counterpart for most users. Last fall Microsoft put out a bloated update of Office for Windows that focused more on collaborating with other users than on making it easier for you to get your own work done. The streamlined...
...Verdict LIBYA A criminal court sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death for deliberately infecting more than 400 children with HIV. Rejecting the charges, Bulgaria, the E.U. and the U.S. led the international condemnation of the sentence. The defense argued that poor hygiene in a hospital in the northeastern port city of Benghazi had caused the spread of the virus. The verdict in the five-year-long case comes at a sensitive time for Libya, which has been seeking to rehabilitate itself internationally. The medics have the right to appeal...