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...booming city of Wenzhou. It detailed the death of Lin Jing, a chemicals trader murdered by an employee who taped his eyes shut before garroting him with a rope. Other prominent abductees have included Chinese movie star Wu Ruofu and Jiang Yingwu, a regional manager of a popular chain of hot pot restaurants, who was killed by his kidnappers in 2004 even after they received a ransom...
...American priority. On Oct. 26, U.S. Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Richard Lawless announced in Tokyo that the two countries had resolved a nine-year standoff over plans to relocate the Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in the town of Ginowan, Okinawa, to a less populated part of the island chain. The next day, the U.S. Navy announced that Japan had dropped a long-standing objection and agreed to let the Navy replace its 44-year-old, diesel-powered Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier, now stationed at Yokosuka, with a newer, nuclear-powered one. Then came the release of a report...
...diverse, with technical support from the Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management. Mass explained that the government is particularly involved in the project because the area affects the herring runs around it, which are vital for the well-being of the wider ecosystem.“Herring are your basic food chain for the ocean,” she said. “That’s why the herring that run up and down these tributaries are so important.”For the time being, she said, the work will just involve sampling and data collection, but in the long...
...have invented the Shift tricycle, whose rear wheels move closer together as the rider picks up speed, then separate for easier balance at slower speeds or at a standstill. A spring-loaded mechanism in the rear hub controls the rear wheels, and there are no spokes or exposed bike chain. The 25-lb. aluminum trike won an international bike-design competition in Taiwan this year. Now its creators want to produce it commercially. Next Product: Round Trip...
...Qaeda group's claims are correct that it is behind the synchronized suicide bombings of three American-owned chain hotels in the center of Amman, Jordan, it would mark the first time that Abu Musab Zarqawi, who claimed responsibility less than 24 hours later, has pulled off a major atrocity in Jordan. The method and the targets bore the hallmarks of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization, whose franchise in Iraq, which specializes in suicide bombings and beheadings of kidnap victims, is headed up by Zarqawi. The bomber at the Radisson SAS hotel is thought to have walked into...