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Maybe the Taiwanese were reluctant to make the trip in the first place. At first blush, Taiwan’s decision to open its front-line islands of Quemoy and Matsu (the site of the second launch) to direct but limited shipping links with China seemed to signal a readiness to embrace the enemy. That isn’t quite the case. Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian is trying to build a China policy that straddles the tall philosophical fence dividing his island and the mainland....

After enduring months of Western carping about its role - or nonrole - in the gulf war, Japan had hoped for a calm summer. Officials in Tokyo thought the massive allied victory and the ensuing U.S. euphoria would provide a time for frayed nerves to mend. Instead, June has brought a rhetorical heat wave to Tokyo. Publicly, the government is doing its utmost to downplay the Western case of Ja-panic....

BORGHESE: Is it difficult to be a Christian in Israel, and are people heeding the Holy Father’s call for Christians not to leave the Holy Land? SABBAH: Christians live like others. They’re Palestinians, and as a result life is hard and they suffer; their liberty of movement is limited. They’re humiliated and reduced to begging for their daily bread. Some have left, especially those who are economically able to do so....

The hilarity is surprising because it arises, unforced, out of the blackest nine months of her life. First her brother Mike was diagnosed with Stage 3 lymphatic cancer, and moved in with her. They were soon joined by her parents, a well-meaning couple who drive their daughter batty. Then Sweeney is herself diagnosed with a rare form of cervical cancer. Neither angry nor maudlin, Sweeney guides us with sweet, sane, unactressy honesty through her sojourn in the ““International House of Cancer....

The next day, Brook got into his plane and began scouring the countryside for traces. Luckily, snow hadn’t fallen for two weeks, and if any blackened fragments had landed on one of the area’s many lakes, whose surfaces were frozen as smooth as windowpanes, he just might spot them. He found nothing that day, or for the next week. Then one afternoon as he was driving his truck across the ice of Tagish Lake (a common practice in this remote area 20 miles from the nearest road), he found them: dozens of fragments, none bigger than a potato....

Are we talking Spenser here? Not yet – we’ll get to his latest title later. For now, consider the exploits of John Cuddy, an ex-army MP turned insurance-company detective turned P.I. Through eight books, Jeremiah Healy, a law professor who writes splendid plot lines, has developed his own version of the lone American hero. Cuddy has battled rogue Vietnamese and their army confederates (“Staked Goat”), rescued a poor black college boy accused of murdering his well-to-do white girlfriend (“So Like Sleep”), even helped the Boston mob track down a killer who was too close to home (“Shallow Graves”)....

Not funny, according to the Chinese. “In the West, the Santa Claus hat is a happy symbol,” wrote a Chinese military magazine in a recent article describing the incident, “but it seems arrogant for pilots wearing such hats to hover near another country’s airspace.” The pilot who flew up to confront the spying American Santas that day was Wang Wei. The article described how Wang and his wingman used “combat actions” to “force away” the American plane....

“What did you do when the guy from Oklahoma broke your record?," Smith offers. MORE: NFL rookies in awe at Pro Football Hall of Fame | Top 30 NFL rookies of all time Gordon, the San Diego Chargers’ first-round pick in the 2015 NFL Draft, nearly falls backward shaking his head, almost as if Smith hit him head on. Gordon set the FBS single-game rushing record with 408 yards for Wisconsin last season, only to watch Oklahoma’s Samaje Perine reset the record with 427 yards the following week....

The question now is whether Apple itself will follow Amelio into oblivion. Last week the company reported its third-quarter financial results: yet another loss, this time $56 million. That wasn’t as bad as the $100 million or so Wall Street expected, and it was far better than the $708 million lost during the quarter ended in March. But for devotees of Apple and its famously easy-to-use Macintosh computer, the absence of really bad news doesn’t necessarily amount to good news....

Scientists generally agree that HIV-1, which most closely resembles a virus found in chimpanzees, jumped from chimp to human–probably as hunters slaughtered the animals for meat. But Hooper outlines how chimp tissue might have wound up in labs where the experimental polio vaccine was prepared. The theory is based in part on anecdotal recollections that chimp kidneys were sent to Philadelphia’s Wistar Institute, where the vaccine was developed. Lab records are scant or missing, but Dr....

(1) “The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes” by Bill Watterson; (2) “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” by Robert Fulghum; (3) “The Plains of Passage” by Jean M. Auel; (4) “Foucault’s Pendulum” by Umberto Eco; (5) ‘The “Late Night With David Letterman” Book of Top Ten Lists’ by Letterman et al.; (6) “Weiner Dog Art: The Far Side Collection” by Gary Larson; (7) “Where’s Waldo” by Martin Handford; (8) “The Bonfire of the Vanities” by Tom Wolfe; (9) “Misery” by Stephen King; (10) “The Civil War” by Geoffrey C....

Lever hasn’t found a “hidden” Sade–the Marquis didn’t hide much–but he brings the man closer to us than ever before, and sharpens our sense of his divided nature. The young Sade, born in l740, was raised in a castle complete with dungeons, his mother was mostly absent, his father and uncle were rakes, a playmate’s guardian was a de bauched murderer, and Jesuit schoolmasters may have initiated him into flagellation and sodomy....

Feinstein, 88, was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992 and is the oldest sitting lawmaker in the chamber. Recently, Feinstein has been at the center of speculation about whether she will retire as reports detail how those around her are allegedly worried about her cognitive health. Those concerns were amplified in a new report from the San Francisco Chronicle on Thursday. The article cited four unnamed senators and three former Feinstein staffers who told the newspaper that “her memory is rapidly deteriorating....

Well, of course not. It’s just that–if you’re a European–there are times when it seems like that, and last week was one of those times. Not only was Ashby acquitted; Walter LaGrand, a German citizen convicted of a 1982 murder, was executed in Arizona, and Washington announced that it intended to slap steep tariffs on a range of European imports in retaliation for tardiness in resolving a dispute over the import of bananas into the European Union....

For those who missed Part I: a dictator suspected of drug-running is brought to the bar of justice after the United States invades his country, at the cost of $2 billion and hundreds of lives. Some Feds want him convicted, but others believe he will blow secrets at his trial, including details of his past relationship with the president of the United States. Left to languish in a Miami jail, Manuel Noriega starts calling his few remaining allies in Panama....

Alternatively, use a boar bristle brush or any other soft bristle brush—for this part of the process, it’s best to be very gentle with your hair. [2] X Expert Source Shun PittmanMaster Cosmetologist, Global Salon Educator & Author Expert Interview. 14 April 2021. If your hair texture is on the straighter or finer side, you may be able to use cool air to straighten your hair. This takes a little longer than blow drying with heat, but it prevents potential damage to hair that occurs with the application of heat....