Roche willing to talk Tamiflu
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A girl at an elementary school in Taipei has her body temperature taken yesterday as the nation steps up its bird flu prevention efforts.
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Pilot says navy's aging aircraft dangerous, ineffective
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Military personnel attend a press conference called by DPP legislators to highlight the inadequacies of Taiwan's anti-submarine capability.
PHOTO: WANG YI-SUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Schriver warns of the US losing sway over China
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Randall Schriver, former US deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, speaks at a forum for Taiwan-US-Japan Strategic Talks hosted by the Taiwan Thinktank in Taipei yesterday. Mainland Affairs Council Chairman Joseph Wu can be seen in the background.
PHOTO: CHIEN JUNG-FONG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Opposition issues new threat over bonuses
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Fan Kuang-chun, right, secretary general of the Judicial Yuan, carefully reviews next year's central government budget at a sitting of the legislature yesterday. The pan-blue camp has threatened to cut the budget of the Judicial Yuan, in retaliation for the government's insistence that Grand Justices be paid a ``professional bonus.''
PHOTO: WANG YI-SUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Afghan leader extends aid to Pakistan
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Kashmiri earthquake refugees walk back up to the Neelum Valley after receiving supplies in the devastated city of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, on Sunday.
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Brazilian referendum rejects gun-sales ban
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People pass a mural in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Saturday. Brazilians voted on Sunday against banning the sale of firearms. According to UNESCO, Brazil ranks second in deaths by guns with 21.72 per 100,000 people a year, behind only Venezuela with 34.3 gun deaths per 100,000.
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Bolivian coca hero runs for president
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Bolivian presidential and vice presidential candidates Evo Morales, left, and Alvaro Garcia Linera, wear traditional hats from Santa Cruz de la Sierra while officially launching the MAS (Movement Towards Socialism) party campaign at the Plaza de los Heros square in La Paz, Bolivia, on Oct. 12.
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Pharmacies endorse US crackdown on fraud
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Peter Ax, pictured in his Scottsdale, Arizona, office on Oct. 19, is chief executive officer of KwikMed, an online pharmacy which uses online diagnosing software.
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A big bite
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Brain scans tell us little we don't know so far
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Top, Dr. Helen Mayberg, a neurologist at Emory University School of Medicine, with human brain scans at her office in Atlanta, Georgia. Above, Jay Giedd with an MRI machine at the NIH's Clinical Center. The claims for brain imaging in psychiatry have outpaced the science, experts say.
PHOTOS: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Mourinho's Blues draw with Everton
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Everton's Tony Hibbert, left, and Joseph Yobo, right, pull back as Didier Drogba of Chelsea does an overhead kick at Goodison Park in Liverpool, England, on Sunday.
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Cobras walk into series lead against Lions
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Cobras starter Lin Ying-jeh pitches against the Lions in Tianmu on Sunday. The Cobras defeated the Lions 2-1. The reliever secured his second win of the playoffs.
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Konerko, Podsednik deliver one-two hits
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Scott Podsednik, center, of the White Sox is embraced by his teammates after hitting a game-winning walk-off home run to beat the Houston Astros 7-6 in Game 2 of the World Series in Chicago on Sunday. The White Sox head to Houston today for Game 3 of the best-of-seven series against the Astros.
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