Teachers demand right to form union
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Teachers march in downtown Taipei yesterday to call for the right to form a labor union. Their placards read ``dignity,'' ``union,'' ``negotiation'' and ``united.''
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Women shout their support for teachers yesterday at a demonstration to demand the right of educators to form a labor union.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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After 16 years, DPP has matured
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President and DPP Chairman Chen Shui-bian leads more than a hundred supporters on a jog during a sports activity to celebrate the party's 16th anniversary yesterday.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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A group of cheerleaders yesterday performs at the opening ceremony for the DPP's 16th anniversary at a stadium in Panchiao City, Taipei County.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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First lady bounces back in style in LA
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Taiwan's first lady, Wu Shu-chen, shows off two Los Angeles Dodgers shirts she received from the nation's baseball superstar, Chen Chin-feng, at an evening banquet in LA on Friday night. Wu was admitted to hospital after feeling dizzy on her way to a Dodgers game to see Chen in action on Friday.
PHOTO: LIU HSING-DER, TAIPEI TIMES
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Activist chastises nuclear industry
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Anti-nuclear activists from the 10th No Nuke Asia Forum march in front of the Presidential Office yesterday to push for a referendum on scrapping the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant.
PHOTO: LIAO RAY-SHANG, TAIPEI TIMESN
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Unilateralism vs. multilateralism
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ILLUSTRATION: YU SHA
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Inquiry targets Homestore executive
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Attorney General John Ashcroft, center, announcing at the Department of Justice that three former executives of the online real estate firm Homestore.com, the nation's largest Internet-based provider of residential real estate listings, were pleading guilty to fraudulently inflating company earnings, Wednesday. With Ashcroft in background left to right are US Attorney Debra Yang, Randall Lee, of the Securities and Exchange Commission and SEC Director of Enforcement Steve Cutler.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Intel's huge bet with HP on Itanium gets iffy
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A joint project between Intel and Hewlett-Packard has resulted in the Itanium 2 superchip. The Itanium chip by Intel.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Floating taxi makes waves in New York
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Real estate developer Douglas Durst by the Hudson River at 46th Street, spent US$4.5 million to revive New York Water Taxi.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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GM may bet billions on fuel-cell engines
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In August General Motors released the first pictures of a prototype car called the Hy-wire, a fusion of technologies that re-imagines how cars look, operate and drive. Hy-wire is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, a technology that was used in the lunar lander and one that every automaker are trying to adapt for cars. Automakers envision the technology as a potential solution to their skirmishes with environmental groups.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Into blackness: Taiwan's mining history at risk of being forgotten
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Cramped quarters meant miners often had to work laying down.
PHOTO COURTESY OF WANG KUO-WEI
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An example of a stacked mine.
PHOTO: YU SEN-LUN, TAIPEI TIMES
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Unearthing Taiwan's history piece by piece
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Taiwan's Historial Archeology Team consists of only seven members, who are responsible not only for surverys and excavations, but the collating of all their finding. Members of the team at work on various digs this year.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HISTORICAL ARCHEOLOGY TEAM
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`If we couldn't have sex from time to time, what would life be?'
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Platform
By Michel Houellebecq
362 pages
Available from FNAC
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Giotto's work adorns memorial hall walls
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Central America comes to Asia
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Urbania 1, by Rodolfo Molina.
PHOTO: VICO LEE, TAIPEI TIMES
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Taiwan's flag flies at start of Games
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A South Korean woman in ceremonial dress leads the Taiwan delegation yesterday for the flag-raising ceremony at the Athletes' Village, Busan, South Korea.
PHOTO: JULES QUARTLY, TAIPEI TIMES
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