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...already up 12.6% to $29.9 billion so far this year. The real figure is likely double that via off-the-books spending, according to an estimate by the U.S.'s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Said CIA Director Porter Goss in Washington last month: "Beijing's military modernization and military buildup could tilt the balance of power in the Taiwan Strait. Improved Chinese capabilities threaten U.S. forces." The U.S. fears that the proposed lifting of the European Union's embargo on arms sales to China could further speed modernization of the P.L.A. and destabilize the region...
...which Jen, 28, was expected to choose a man who might one day become her husband, she ended up turning down everyone and leaving the show alone. In a live broadcast in front of a booing, mostly female studio audience and more than 11 million TV viewers, after a buildup in which she spent six weeks whittling down a pool of 25 eager suitors, Jen turned down the last, bewildered contender. Art-gallery director Jerry Ferris, 29, was so smitten with her that he had penned the words to a love song that ABC played on the show right before...
...communiqué came at the end of a week when China had already been annoyed by American musings on Taiwan. In testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Porter Goss, Director of the CIA had said-in another display of the blindingly obvious-that "Beijing's military modernization and military buildup is tilting the balance of power in the Taiwan Strait." China branded Goss's comments "irresponsible" and said that "the U.S. has outrageously interfered with Chinese internal affairs and sent a false signal to the advocates of 'Taiwan independence...
With all the buildup to a possible second-place showdown between the Lions and Bears on Saturday, Brown must take care of business against Cornell first...
...second study, from the Cleveland Clinic, also tracked cardiac patients, but instead of looking at heart attacks, the researchers measured actual plaque buildup. The patients whose CRP dropped the most on statins saw their plaques get smaller--again, independent of what happened to their...