Corrupt commissioner's ex-wife wins Taitung vote
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Kuang Li-chen hugs her ex-husband Wu Chun-li after winning the by-election for Taitung County commissioner yesterday.
PHOTO: HANG TSUN-WEI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Earthquake causes panic in Taitung
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The floor of Chengyi Hardware and Department Store at the intersection of Chuankuang Rd and Kengsheng Rd in Taitung is strewn with broken goods that fell off the shelves during yesterday's earthquake. The earthquake struck at 6:02pm and measured 6.4 on the Richter scale.
PHOTO: HUANG MING-TANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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`Brokeback' fever invades Hong Kong's rugby sevens
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Two spectators at the Hong Kong Sevens Rugby tournament wear outfits inspired by the gay romance Brokeback Mountain yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Pakistanis still suffering from effects of oil spill
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A beach affected by an oil spill from a Greek-registered tanker is deserted in Karachi, Pakistan, in this Aug. 14, 2003, photo. People along this stretch of coast are increasingly suffering from skin, eye and respiratory infections nearly three years after the spill.
PHOTO: AP
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Soyuz capsule docks at international orbiting station
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A photograph of a video screen in a control center shows Brazilian astronaut Marcos Pontes, second left, holding a Brazilian flag as he stands with Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov, left, ISS Commander Bill McArthur, center, US astronaut Jeffrey Williams, second right, and Russian flight engineer Valery Tokarev.
PHOTO: AP
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Bush, Fox reiterate immigration plan
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From left, Mexican President Vicente Fox, US President George W. Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper walk along the steps of the Mayan Pyramid in Chichen Itza in Mexico on Thursday. The three leaders held a two-day North American summit in Cancun, Mexico, that ended on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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Peru's Humala `welcomes' foreign investment
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Former army lieutenant colonel and presidential candidate of the Union for Peru Ollanta Humala speaks to journalists during a press conference on Friday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Employers looking after parents of staff
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Japanese tune in to first cellphone TV broadcasts
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Yumi Nagasawa, an employee of Japan's top cellphone company, NTT DoCoMo, holds a mobile phone showing a test digital TV broadcast on the screen at the company's headquarters in Tokyo last Monday.
PHOTO: AP
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Easter Island traditionalists take on the casino lobby
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Visitors to Easter Island on March 20 view the island's famous stone statues known as moai that were carved centuries ago and stand along the coast. A new plan to build a casino on this speck in the South Pacific has created an uproar among the island's 3,800 residents.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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All-purpose ATM customizes the convenience store
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A multi-purpose Vcom machine is pictured at a 7-Eleven store in Winter Springs, Florida, on Feb. 13.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Nun allowed to become a lawyer 修女獲准成為律師
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A nun helps a group of women light candles at a church in Calcutta, India.
印度加爾各答的一所教堂裡，一名修女協助幾位婦女點燃蠟燭。 (照片：美聯社)
PHOTO: AP
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Ready, steady, diet
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Ashley Filipp, a recovering anorexic and bulimic, who now counsels others with eating disorders.
PHOTOS: NY TIMES
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Having a poor body image is now considered a reliable predictor of future eating disorders, including anorexia, bulimia and binge eating. Girl Scouts are led on an appreciation tour of the female form, part of a program called Feast, Famine and the Female Form: Exploring Body Image Through Art.
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Jane Goodall walks on the wild and dark side
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British primatologist Jane Goodall, the world-famous authority on chimpanzees, began her pioneering study of the primates more than 40 years ago in Tanzania
PHOTOS: AFP
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Hanif Kureishi listened to and followed his father's heart
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My Ear at His Heart
By Hanif Kureishi
242 pages
FABER
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Naivete and incompetence ruined Iraq
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Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
By Michael Gordon and General Bernard Trainor
603 pages
PANTHEON
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From the chicken's point of view, the future looks bleak
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Millions of domestic chickens, geese and ducks have been culled in the fight against the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.
PHOTOS: AGENCIES
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An Apple a day for three decades
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The switch to using Intel chips may herald a new era for Apple.
GRAPHIC: TT
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Coffee drinking likely to increase in major leagues
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Matt Lawton, right, of the Mariners, beats the tag by Athletics shortstop Bobby Crosby during the fourth inning of a preseason game in Peoria, Arizona, on March 25. Crosby said he hasn't seen much use of amphetamines in Major League Baseball.
PHOTO: AP
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Bears see a big return from Betts
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Bears slugger Todd Betts of Canada drives the ball to deep right field for a base hit at Sinjhuang on Thursday.
PHOTO COURTESY OF CPBL
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PHOTO COURTESY OF CPBL
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Crusaders restrain Hurricanes
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Tonderai Chavhanga of the Stormers tackles DigbyIoane of Western Force during their Super 14 match at Subiaco Oval in Perth, Australia, on Friday. The Stormers won 26-25.
PHOTO: EPA
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Australians party in Hong Kong Stadium during the Hong Kong Sevens yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Jenson pushes the right button
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PHOTO: EPA
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German security prepares
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A view into the FIFA-WM stadium in Hamburg, Germany, last year. This stadium will be a venue of the FIFA World Cup.
PHOTO: EPA
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Fed Express roars into finals
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Former tennis player Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina is introduced during a news conference at the NASDAQ-100 Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, on Friday. Sabatini will be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, in July.
PHOTO: AP
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