Kaohsiung gets that sinking feeling
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Underground work on the Shitzuwan station of Kaohsiung's MRT line caused subsidence that affected nearby buildings yesterday, causing them to sink by as much as one story. About 20 people fled their stores and homes as five three-story buildings on Linhai 2nd Road began to sink around 1:20pm. No one was hurt in the incident.
PHOTO: CHANG CHUNG-YI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Chalabis defiant over arrest warrant
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Militiamen allied to Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr fire a mortar in Najaf yesterday. Four days of intense fighting in the heart of Najaf have killed or wounded hundreds of Shiite militants, the US military says.
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EPA plans restoration of polluted Fengshan River
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Despite the Environmental Protection Administration's cleanup efforts, the heavily polluted Fengshan River in Kaohsiung County still has a long ways to go before it can cast off its derogatory nickname, the Black Dragon River.
PHOTO: CHAI CHING-HUA, TAIPEI TIMES
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Rights group urges quick political asylum
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Wu'er Kaixi, left, one of the leaders of the 1989 dissident student movement in Beijing, attends a press conference with representatives of human rights groups yesterday. The groups urged the government to speed up its handling of the asylum applications of Chinese dissidents Chen Rong-li and Yan Peng.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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University president paid his way by writing fiction
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Liu Chao-hsuan, new president of Soochow University.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Massive rallies staged for and against Chavez
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Supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez take part in a demonstration through the streets of Caracas on Sunday.
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Israeli alliance remains elusive
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Israeli soldiers hand a box of radiation sickness pills to Rachel Malul, 80, in the town of Dimona in the Negev desert on Sunday. The Israeli army began distributing radiation sickness pills on Sunday in Dimona, where one of Israel's two nuclear reactors is located, and neighboring towns to protect residents from radioactive fallout from a missile attack on the nuclear station, or in case of a reactor accident.
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US says world must stop Iranian nuclear arms program
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US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice speaks on NBC TV on Sunday.
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Italian leader faces new challenge
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Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi concentrates during a session of the Italian upper house of Parliament last month in Rome.
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Self-censorship takes over on Chinese television
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Behind Intel's exotic tuning of chips
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Amit Jain, an engineering manager at Intel, works in the laser chemical etching lab at the company's Santa Clara, California, facility last Friday. Intel researchers, searching for a way to look inside chips that had been sealed shut, developed a method to etch away most of the back of the chip until only an ultrathin sheet of silicon is left. This sheet acts as a window, making it possible to use ion beams and lasers to see the transistors as they turn on and off.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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One sneaky Loch Ness movie
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Zak Penn, left, and Werner Herzog are shown in Los Angeles. Herzog appears in Penn's directorial debut, Incident at Loch Ness.
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Rod Pampling wins The International
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Jack Vickers, left, and other committee members look on as Rob Pampling holds the trophy after winning The International at Castle Pines in Castle Rock, Colorado, Sunday.
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Mauresmo overcomes Likhovtseva
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Amelie Mauresmo celebrates her victory over Elena Likhovtseva during their finals match at the Rogers Cup In Montreal, Canada. Mauresmo won 6-1, 6-0.
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Elway, Sanders, Eller, Brown in Hall
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Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees for 2004, from left: Barry Sanders, John Elway, Carl Eller and Bob Brown at the enshrinement ceremony in Canton, Ohio, Sunday.
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Red Sox beat Tigers despite Wakefield
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Shortstop Orlando Cabrera of the Red Sox avoids Jason Smith of the Tigers to turn a double play on Alex Sanchez at first base in the seventh inning in Detroit, Michigan, Sunday. David Ortiz's three-run shot capped a six-run fourth inning as the Red Sox won 11-9.
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