Battle against SARS heats up
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Two security guards at Taipei's Mackay Memorial Hospital yesterday take a woman's temperature before she enters the hospital complex. According to an opinion poll, almost 80 percent of the respondents agree with the government's idea of launching a 10-day ``national temperature-taking program'' starting this Sunday.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Parties still divided over grand justice nominees
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Judicial Yuan President Weng Yueh-sheng, left -- accompanied by Presidential Office Secretary-General Chiou I-jen, center -- yesterday visits Legislative Yuan speaker Wang Jin-pyng to seek support for his nominations.
PHOTO: LIU HSIN-TEH, TAIPEI TIMES
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Central area unveils new SARS center
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PHOTO: XU XIA-LIAN, TAIPEI TIMES
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Iraqis will get lots of aid: `with love from Taiwan'
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Minister of Foreign Affairs Eugene Chien, center, yesterday takes pictures with representatives from 19 local NGOs during a charity event aimed at helping the Iraqi people. The ceremony was held at a warehouse in Taoyuan County.
PHOTO: LEE HSIN-HUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Hillary celebrates Everest climb
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Sir Edmund Hillary, left, waves to wellwishers from a carriage after a felicitation ceremony in Kathmandu yesterday as part of the Mount Everest Golden Jubilee Celebration. Hillary rode in the carriage with his wife and Gyalzen Sherpa, one of three surviving Sherpas from the first Everest expedition.
PHOTO: AFP
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Bulldozers threaten to rip Beijing's social fabric
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Residents of Nanyingfang drink beer and swat flies in the Beijing neiborhood that has been marked for demolition.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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More attacks hit at the US occupation
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US Army soldiers seen at the site of a roadside explosion against a Humvee on the main airport road in Baghdad, on Monday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Turkish prison protests took toll on health
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Former Turkish inmates Hasan Cepe, center, Esmehan Ekinci, back right, and Niyazi Kaya left, take a walk in an Anakra park with the help of their caregiver.
PHOTO: AP
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Europe's secular mission
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Japanese losing hope of economic recovery
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A taxi driver strolls amid sea of cabs awaiting in line at a parking lot of Tokyo's Haneda airport on April 28. For more than a decade, Japan has been unable to wrest itself out of an economic slowdown. People are trying to scrimp and save in every way and thus, taxi drivers are losing business.
PHOTO: AFP
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Exploring the final frontier
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Two NASA rovers were to be launched this month and next, for Mars, and are scheduled to land in January near the planet's equator. Technicians at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida perform tests on a Mars rover last week. Below, Pathfinder's rover transmitted this view of Mars in 1977.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Two NASA rovers were to be launched this month and next, for Mars, and are scheduled to land in January near the planet's equator. Technicians at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida perform tests on a Mars rover last week. Below, Pathfinder's rover transmitted this view of Mars in 1977.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Clemens' new glove fits, but he just can't wear it
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Cincinnati second baseman Ryan Freel leaps over Atlanta Braves runner Robert Fick as he tries to make a double play off of a fielders-choice hit by Javy Lopez during the seventh inning in Atlanta on Monday. Lopez was safe. The Reds won 7-6 in the 11th inning.
PHOTO: AP
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Agassi, Graf won't mix it up on court
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Roger Federer of Switzerland lies on the clay of the central court at Roland Garros stadium in Paris after falling in the opening round of the French Open on Monday. Federer lost 7-6 6-2 7-6 to Peru's Luis Horna in the biggest shock so far in the tournament.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Andre Agassi after defeating Karol Beck of Slovakia at Roland Garros stadium in Paris on Monday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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76ers coach Larry Brown decides to throw in towel
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Philadelphia 76ers General Manager Billy King, right, and Comcast-Spectacor Chairman Ed Snider, center, look on as 76ers coach Larry Brown announces his resignation during a press conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Monday.
PHOTO: AP
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Kidd healing up for finals, but ...
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New Jersey Nets guard Jason Kidd, right, drives past Detroit Pistons Chauncey Billups in Game 4 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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