AmCham and TSU spar on China ties
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Taiwan Solidarity Union members Huang Shih-cho, left, Liao Pen-yen, center, and Ho Min-hao respond yesterday at a press conference in Taipei to AmCham's criticisms of the party for its economic policy.
PHOTO: CHIEN JUN-FONG, TAIPEI TIMES
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World-famous `Crocodile Hunter' killed in freak stingray attack while filming
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In this undated photo released by Animal Planet, media personality and environmentalist Steve Irwin is shown at Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock.
PHOTO: AP/ANIMAL PLANET
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Medical sensor breakthrough made
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Students at National Taiwan University hold up devices capable of testing concentrations of C reactive protein, some of which are no larger than a wristwatch and capable of giving instantaneous results. Developers said the devices could be very convenient for patients needing results 24 hours a day.
PHOTO: CHU PEI-HSIUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Shih Ming-teh's campaign takes a turn for the bizarre
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Spokesman for the anti-Chen campaign Jerry Fan maps out the location for the protest scheduled to begin on Saturday at a press conference held at the campaign's headquarters in Taipei yesterday.
PHOTO: WANG MIN-WEI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Watchdog seeks labor rights for Thailand's bar girls
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Thai prostitutes wait outside a bar for customers in Bangkok's downtown redlight district on Sept. 26, 2001. Some 300,000 women are believed to work in Thailand's vast nightlife business, which, despite the country's reputation as a free-wheeling holiday destination, carries significant social stigma among Thais.
PHOTO: AFP
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Sarkozy solidifies right-wing lead
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French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy signals at the end of the Union for a Popular Movement's summer congress in Marseille on Sunday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Winners and losers in the post-Sept. 11 era
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Korea Electric workers returning to work
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South Korean power plant workers shout slogans to press for their calls against privatization and other demands during a rally in Seoul yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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`Winebots' can distinguish good from bad wine, but not a man from bacon
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A ``winebot,'' or a robot that can taste, fires off a beam of infrared light from its left arm to a bottle of Shiraz and identifies the kind of wine during a demonstration at a laboratory in Tsu, central Japan, on Aug. 22.
warning: excessive consumption of alcohol can damage your health.
PHOTO: AP
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Sublime Sorenstam does it again
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Annika Sorenstam lines up her putt on the 18th green during the final round of the LPGA State Farm Classic golf tournament in Springfield, Illinois, on Sunday. Sorenstam tied the LPGA record for the lowest final-round score by a tournament winner with a 62.
PHOTO: AP
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Giants of African soccer show their strength
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Senegal's El Hadji Ousseynou Diouf, left, vies with Mozambique's Macamo Paulo in an African Nations Cup qualifier at Dakar on Saturday. Senegal won 2-0.
PHOTO: AFP
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Bears win seesaw battle with Cobras
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The Brother Elephants' designated hitter Chen Guang-ren, second right, grimaces as a trainer examines him after he fouled a ball off his foot during Sunday's game against the President Lions in Tianmu.
PHOTO: WANG YI-SUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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La New Bears infielder Lin Chih-sheng, left, steals second base in the bottom of the seventh inning of Sunday's game in Kaohsiung after the Macoto Cobras' second-baseman Teng Shih-yang failed to get the tag down in time.
PHOTO: HUANG CHIH-YUAN, TAIPEI TIMES
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A-Rod on a roll as Yankees overpower Twins
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The Philadelphia Phillies' Ryan Howard, right, passes teammate David Dellucci at the plate after his third straight home run off the Atlanta Braves' Tim Hudson in the fifth inning on Sunday in Philadelphia.
PHOTO: AP
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Security guard Alfredo Garcia, left, tackles a fan after she ran onto the field during a baseball game between the Colorado Rockies and the Los Angeles Dodgers in Los Angeles on Sunday.
PHOTO: AP
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The New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez, top, puts the tag on the Minnesota Twins' Jason Tyner as Tyner was caught in a rundown between home plate and third base in the third inning of baseball play at Yankee Stadium in New York on Sunday.
PHOTO: AP
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Tennis' elder statesman bids farewell
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Andre Agassi acknowledges the crowd after losing the final match of his career to Benjamin Becker of Germany in their third-round match on the seventh day of the US Open tennis tournament in Flushing Meadows, New York, on Sunday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Former champions surge ahead at US Open
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Roger Federer of Switzerland returns a shot to Vincent Spadea of the US at the US Open tennis tournament in New York on Sunday.
PHOTO: AP
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Europeans steal NBA's thunder
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The Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant listens to an unidentified woman during a basketball clinic for children in Tokyo yesterday.
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Myths 神話
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A "winged" horse is led across the stage during a performance of the opera Ca Ira in Poznan, Poland.
在波蘭Poznan演出的「光明在望」歌劇中，一匹「長著翅膀」的馬被牽越舞台。 (照片：美聯社)
PHOTO: AP
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Stairway to heaven is not pie in the sky
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Lockheed Martin Corp's Orion Crew Vehicle is pictured in orbit around the moon in this artist's rendition released by the company. The Orion is supposed to replace the space shuttle fleet, take astronauts to the moon and perhaps on to Mars, if plans to build a space elevator don't get off the ground.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Miss Universe's prom date 環球小姐的舞伴
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Miss Australia 2006, Erin McNaught, poses by a pool in Los Angeles, California. 2006年澳洲小姐艾琳•麥克諾特在美國加州洛杉磯一處池畔留影。 (照片：美聯社)
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