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...technology conference late last year in Hainan province, Ouyang Ziyuan, the chief scientist for China's lunar space program, laid out the country's rationale for pursuing increasingly expensive exploration in a developing country where there are a lot of claims on public funds. "The lunar exploration project will spur high-tech development," he explained. "And I cannot calculate how much return there will be on that investment." He also spoke of the space program's appeal as a means of stirring and unifying the citizenry: "The lunar-exploration project will have a valuable effect on the ethnic spirit...
...After a couple of hours, we round the final spur and Kamal Kote is before us. A valley of yellow rice terraces juts out over the Jhelum valley below and runs like a scale to the base of precipitous peaks above us. Cicadas are singing in the golden sunset. There are cedars and apple trees and clusters of big houses with handsome shiny metal roofs. But something's not right. There are deep cracks on the path we're on. Dust is swirling around the mountainsides above us. And a closer look at what we thought were houses reveals they...
...earthquake was dramatically felt in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf climbed over the rubble of a flattened apartment building in Islamabad to spur on rescue workers trying to free dozens of families trapped underneath collapsed slabs of concrete. "It is a test for all of us, the entire nation," the president said as he returned to army headquarters to coordinate relief efforts in the mountainous northern areas of Pakistan that were worst hit. He dispatched 10 M-17 helicopters to rescue people in the stricken areas. How Musharraf handles the relief operations will certainly...
Almost all of the writers in the Standard distrust international institutions such as the U.N., favor a less-strict separation between church and state, and believe that lower taxes are needed to spur economic growth. But the views expressed in the magazine are certainly not monolithic. For instance, in a 1997 article, economist Irwin Stelzer writes that, to achieve “the long-held and very American ideal of equality of opportunity,” conservatives like himself might consider the possibility of imposing a 100 percent inheritance tax—at least for large estates...
...Medicine and author of The Truth About the Drug Companies. A better drug, she notes, could be defined broadly: fewer side effects, easier to take, longer lasting, more effective in a subset of patients. Such a policy would not only speed vital information to doctors, it would also spur drug companies to focus on creating truly novel medications rather than minor variations on existing themes, what many researchers call "me too" drugs. "The pace of innovation has been slow," says Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, chairman of the psychiatry department at Columbia University Medical Center and lead author of the study...