Sunday Science: Chromatography 週日科學: 色譜分析法
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Photo: catherine Thomas, taipei times
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[BOOK REVIEW] Modern art, 101
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Modernism: The Lure of Heresy From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond
By Peter Gay
610 pages
W.W. Norton and Co
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Professor with a fighting chance
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Author David Barton teaches in the English Department of the National Central University in Chungli.
photos: Jay Chen
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[BOOK REVIEW] Lies, all lies
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BITTER SWEETS
By Roopa Farooki
360 pages
St Martin's Press
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Money, houses and cars to burn
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A personalized house designed by Skea for the modern athlete.
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Traditional paper models are burned as offerings to keep the ghost of the departed happy in the afterlife.
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Hsieh must state views to Japan: Ma
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Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou, fourth right, cheers at the KMT's 113th anniversary celebrations in Chiayi yesterday.
PHOTO: TING WEI-CHIEH, TAIPEI TIMES
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Attack kills six outside Kabul
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Italian soldiers with the International Security Assistance Force block the road after a suicide attack in Paghman, Afghanistan, yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Saudi Arabia to send minister to Annapolis talks
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Muslim women walk by the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem on Friday. Israeli and Palestinian leaders are set to meet in Annapolis, Maryland, next week at a US-hosted peace conference.
PHOTO: AP
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`Explorer' passengers get more thrill than expected
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The Explorer cruise ship is pictured sinking after it hit an object in Antarctic waters on Friday, some 880km southeast of Ushuaia, the southernmost Argentine city.
PHOTO: AP
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He who votes `no' in referendum is a traitor: Chavez
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez greets supporters during a meeting in Caracas on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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ASIA: Analysts predict fears will hamper Asian markets
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A woman looks at the stock index board at the South Korean Exchange in Seoul on Friday. The KOSPI index closed down 26.14 points at 1,772.88 after trading between 1,745.26 and 1,820.61.
PHOTO: AFP
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Oil boom changing life at former prison colony
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Children feed pigeons in the central square of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia, on Oct. 29. Once an isolated outpost off the Russian mainland's eastern coast that began life as a prison colony under the czars in the 19th century, Sakhalin Island is enjoying an economic boom driven by the oil boom.
PHOTO: AP
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Birds take flight near the liquefied natural gas plant on Sakhalin Island, Russia, on Oct. 23.
PHOTO: AP
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Tourism helping traditional alms bowl producers
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Amorn Kuldiriksamphan welds a Buddhist alms bowl at Ban Baht community, or the House of Bowls, in downtown Bangkok on Oct. 29.
PHOTO: AP
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Agritourism gaining appeal across the US
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A woman works on a field at Maverick Farms in Valle Crucis, North Carolina, one of a growing number of agritourism enterprises, this month.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Blue Jays pitcher Joe Kennedy dies unexpectedly at 28
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Oakland Athletics pitcher Joe Kennedy throws to the San Francisco Giants in the fourth inning of their baseball game in Oakland, California, on May 20.
PHOTO: AP
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Mayorga sends Vargas to retirement beaten
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Ricardo Mayorga, right, exchanges punches with Fernando Vargas during the third round of their WBC Super Middleweight Championship at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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Vaughan looking to today's game to finalize Test team
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England cricket captain Michael Vaughan, front right, evades a tackle while playing rugby during a practice session at the R. Premadasa stadium in Colombo on Monday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Pete Sampras beats world No. 1 Federer in Macau exhibition
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Pete Sampras of the US hits a return to Switzerland's Roger Federer during their exhibition game at the Venetian Macao in Macau yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Hakuho win moves him a step closer to the Emperor's Cup
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Sumo grand champion Hakuho, center, holds the Emperor's Cup at the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo on Sept. 23.
PHOTO: AFP
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Jones' titles stripped from record books
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Marion Jones pauses after a question during a news conference in San Francisco on June 16, 2004.
PHOTO: AP
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Spinners hand India slim advantage
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"Pakistan's Salman Butt, right, plays a stroke as India's V.V.S. Laxman takes evasive action during the first Test at the Ferozshah Kotla ground in New Delhi yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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"Pakistan's Salman Butt, right, plays a stroke as India's V.V.S. Laxman takes evasive action during the first Test at the Ferozshah Kotla ground in New Delhi yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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