China's heir apparent to enter world stage
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Chinese Vice President Hu Jintao, left, shakes hands with President Jiang Zemin in this file photo taken in Beijing, March 1999.
PHOTO: AFP
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Helicopters demonstrate air-to-air missiles
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An AIM-9M Sidewinder missile seen mounted on one of the army's Super Cobra attack helicopters.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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MJIB's new chief takes command
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Minister of Justice Chen Ding-nan, right, presents Wang Kuang-yu, left, the outgoing director of the ministry's Investigation Bureau, with a painting during a handover ceremony yesterday. Earlier this month the ministry announced that Wang would be stepping down and be succeeded by the bureau's deputy director, Yeh Sheng-mao.
PHOTO: LIAO RAY-SHANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Competing over competition
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ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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Japan's disease may infect its neighbors
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A Japanese businessman studies a Tokyo brokerage's electric board indicating that the Tokyo stock market's main index dropped to its lowest close in nearly 17 years on Monday. The benchmark 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average fell 187.60 points, or 1.64 percent, to finish at 11,257.94, the lowest close since Dec. 11, 1984, when it closed at 11,250.83.
PHOTO: AP
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`Spin' couldturbocharge computing
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A field known as spintronics taps into electrons' magnetics. It may allow for computers to use quantum mechanical efforts to perform calculations. Stuart Parkin, above, works with a machine that creates magnetic tunnel junctions, MRAM's basic component.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Baby computer learning to become an adult
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Artificial intelligence is raising a computer, Hal, which it is hoped will grow up to speak as human. Anat Treister-Goren reads to him in Savyon near Tel Aviv.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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