Direct flights to benefit both sides: Ma
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President-elect Ma Ying-jeou, back row, fifth left, and members of the pop group One Million Star 2 are joined by children at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Ilan Green Expo in Ilan County yesterday.
PHOTO: CNA
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NEWSMAKER: Chow Mei-ching: the career-minded first lady
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Chow Mei-ching, wife of president-elect Ma Ying-jeou, signs a table tennis paddle on her way to work on Monday. PHOTO: LIAO CHEN-HUEI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Traffic threatens endangered antelope
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A saiga calf wearing a radio collar runs after being released in the Sharga Nature Reserve in Mongolia in 2006.
PHOTO: AP
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FEATURE: Jewish tunnel worries Palestinians
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An Israeli flag is pictured on the roof of a Jewish-owned house in the east Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan on Jan. 6 last year.
PHOTO: AFP
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Stripping away assumptions
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Rookie Anderson stuns Djokovic
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Taiwan's Chan Yung-jan returns the ball to Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova during their second round match at the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, on Friday. Kuznetsova won 6-1, 3-6, 6-0.
PHOTO: AP
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Hoy wins an unexpected gold medal in the sprint
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Britain's Chris Hoy celebrates victory in the men's sprint competition at the World Track Cycling Championships at the Manchester Velodrome in Manchester, England, on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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Baird shoots 69 for one-stroke lead
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Japan's Shigeki Maruyama reacts to a shot on the 14th hole during the second round of the PGA Zurich Classic in Avondale, Louisiana, on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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Yankee Stadium gets ready for final season
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A fan stands to applaud a play by the New York Yankees in a game against the Anaheim Angels on Aug. 25, 1998, at Yankee Stadium in New York.
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Evans' drop goal downs the Northern Bulls
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Rudi Wulf of the Blues, right, tackles Zane Kirchner of the Bulls during their Super 14 match at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand, yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Taipei City give Taiwan a good run for their money
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An unidentified Taiwan national team player pulls the shirt of an unidentified Taipei City player during their friendly at Bailing Bridge in Taipei yesterday.
PHOTO: LIU HSIN-DE, TAIPEI TIMES
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Kiwis power through to quarters
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Todd Clever of the US is tackled by Taiwan's Hsu Lieh-hsien during their match at the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens tournament yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Dravid passes 10,000 runs as South Africa fight back
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India's Rahul Dravid celebrates as he hits his 10,000th career run during the fourth day of the first Test against South Africa in Chennai, India, yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Sunday Science: Showing how a fire extinguisher works 週日科學: 滅火器的原理
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照片：MICHAEL KEARNEY
PHOTO: MICHAEL KEARNEY, TAIPEI TIMES
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[BOOK REVIEW] 'Fear not for the future, weep not for the past'
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REPRESENTING ATROCITY IN TAIWAN: The 2/28 Incident and White Terror
By Sylvia Li-chun Lin
240 pages
Columbia
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Inside the mind of a ruthless killer
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Gary Michael Hilton is whisked out of the court after pleading guilty to murdering Buford hiker Meredith Emerson.
PHOTOS: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Avid hikers Jack, left, and Irene Bryant on the holiday card they sent out in 2005. Their love of nature ended in tragedy when the Bryants apparently crossed paths with Gary Michael Hilton.
PHOTOS: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Harlem to Antarctica for science, and for pupils
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Shakira Brown, 29, a science teacher at Promise Academy, which is part of The Harlem Children's Zone consortium of charter schools in New York City. Brown will be going to Antarctica on an expedition with other scientists this October.
PHOTOS: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Science teacher Shakira Brown discusses a microorganism with students in Manhattan.
PHOTOS: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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[BOOK REVIEW] The twin rises of the Chinese superpower
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Rising Star: China's new security diplomacy
By Bates Gill
267 pages
Brookings
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The topic is race; the art is fearless
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Stills From Nayland and AA (2001), a video collaboration between Nayland Blake and AA Bronson.
PHOTOS: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Thieves shun cars for catalytic converters
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Jorge Duarte, a Car-X employee in Chicago, removes the honeycomb filter from an old catalytic converter. A thief can sell a stolen catalytic converter to a scrap yard for a couple of hundred US dollars. The honeycomb filter inside contains platinum traces.
PHOTOS: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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