White House reels as Libby indicted
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Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis ''Scooter'' Libby walks from the White House on crutches to the Eisenhower Executive Building on the White House compound on Friday.
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Benefits of breastfeeding pushed at event
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A child picks up soap made from mother's milk yesterday during a press conference sponsored by the Bureau of Health Promotion to promote World Breastfeeding Week.
PHOTO: FANG PIN-CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Cities exchange `healthy' ideas at Taipei forum
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Manme Bousso Samb, the deputy mayor of Dakar, Senegal, speaks with a local official during the Taipei Healthy Cities Leaders Roundtable and International Healthy Cities Conference at the Taipei International Conference Center yesterday.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Taiwan needs more support, US official says
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John Tkacik Jr, a senior research fellow at the Asian Studies Center of the US Heritage Foundation, speaks during an interview with the Taipei Times on Wednesday.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Kim Jong-il assures Hu on talks
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, right, walks beside Chinese President Hu Jintao upon Hu's arrival at the Pyongyang airport in North Korea on Friday.
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Two possible bird flu deaths reported in Vietnam
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Salesman Antonio Gomes, 44, sits at the door of a poultry shop in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Friday. In Latin America, some countries are taking draconian steps to stop bird flu before it even shows up. Latin America has also been on the receiving end of other countries' policies. The African nation of Senegal last week banned all poultry imports, including those from Brazil, the world's largest chicken exporter.
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Line of Control set to be relaxed
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Earthquake survivors queue for supplies at Hatian Bala, some 40km from Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, on Friday. Indian diplomats were due to visit Pakistan yesterday for talks on getting relief across the Line of Control.
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Syria urged to oust terror group
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A Lebanese supporter of the Hezbollah guerilla group, right, picks out a flag from another supporter, holding Palestinian and Lebanese flags, during the annual rally to mark Al-Quds Day, Jerusalem Day, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday.
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Normally peaceful Zanzibar tense before elections
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A Zanzibari woman rests in the courtyard of a poor household in Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania, on Friday, next to electoral posters of the ruling Revolutionary Party. Elections set to be held this weekend on mainland Tanzania have been postponed until Dec. 18 due to the death of an opposition vice-presidential candidate, the national electoral board announced late on Thursday. Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa appealed for calm on Zanzibar as voters on the volatile archipelago got set for weekend elections amid heightened fears of political violence.
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Sunni faction to contest Iraqi election
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A US soldier from Bravo company 2-22 Infantry 10th Mountain Division 1st Brigade Combat Team uses a blade to manicure his fingernails as his unit waits for orders on how to proceed after detaining a suspect during a patrol of western Baghdad on Friday.
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Putting an end to phone phobia
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Asian stocks down on gloomy outlook
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A crane is left idle at a construction site in Jakarta yesterday, as workers started leaving for their home towns to celebrate Eid al-Fitr. Trading on Indonesia's stock market is expected to be subdued in the coming week as investors are in a holiday mood ahead of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr festival.
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Water stocks skyrocket
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A worker tests water at Aqua America's plant in Bryn Mawr, Pennysylvania, earlier this month. While most of what flows through the nation's water taps is supplied by publicly run municipal systems, a growing number of rural and suburban water systems are owned by a handful of publicly traded utilities. The shares of these companies have skyrocketed this year.
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Nobel-winning economist looks beyond the invisible hand
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University of Maryland economist Thomas Schelling, right, smiles with his wife Alice prior to making remarks at a news conference to celebrate winning the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics, in College Park, Maryland. Schelling said his work in nuclear deterrence was probably his most valuable and important contribution in his research.
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Upside down
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Three small links fail to excite Kinmen
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Traveling to China via Kinmen saves Taiwanese businessmen money and time.
PHOTO: DAVID MOMPHARD, TAIPEI TIMES
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Chinese government restrictions on travel to Kinmen deter many potential tourists.
PHOTO: DAVID MOMPHARD, TAIPEI TIMES
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After the demilitarization of Kinmen economic growth picked up, but not as quickly as many local residents would like.
PHOTO: DAVID MOMPHARD, TAIPEI TIMES
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Traders in Kinmen have different prices for local residents and Chinese tourists.
PHOTO: DAVID MOMPHARD, TAIPEI TIMES
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Gao Pei-hwa is the accidental super star
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Gao was at the top of his field and then gave it all up to run a bar.
PHOTO: GAIVN PHIPPS, TAIPEI TIMES
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South Korea's authoritarian past is withering away
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Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea
By Seungsook Moon
253 pages
Duke University Press
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Richard Evans explains why Hitler was accepted in Germany
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The Third Reich in Power, 1933-1939
By Richard Evans
941 pages
The Penguin Press
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Jackets win in shootout
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Martin Prusek, left, of the Blue Jackets makes a save as teammate Nikolai Zherdev, right, defends against Kyle Wanvig of the Wild during the third period in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday. Columbus defeated Minnesota 2-1 in overtime after a shootout climaxed in a sudden-death goal by Trevor Letowski.
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Top US jockey zeroes in on Breeders' Cup
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A mirror reflects activity in the barn area of Belmont Park on the eve of the Breeders' Cup Stakes, at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, on Friday.
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UCLA Bruins seem ready to face their next nemesis
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Washington quarterback Isaiah Stanback, left, is tackled by UCLA's Justin London, top right, and Dennis Keyes in Pasadena, California, on Oct. 1. The surging Bruins, ranked No. 8 in the most recent AP poll, face Stanford today.
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Chicago jubilates
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