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US Mars Rover Lands Safely

11 月 7th, 2008 by ky8ywduyum

The exploration of Mars entered a new phase as Spirit, the first of US twin rovers, landed on the Red Planet later Saturday.

　　The rover can work as a robotic field geologist and can see sharper images, explore farther and examine rocks better than anything that’s ever landed on Mars, scientists at the US space agency NASA said.

　　Spirit, as big as a mini-car, is equipped with a suite of scientific instruments that will be used to read the geologic record at the landing site, to investigate what role water played there, and to determine how suitable the conditions would have been for life.

　　It has a panoramic camera at human-eye height, and a miniature thermal emission spectrometer with infrared vision that can help scientists identify the most interesting rocks.

　　The six-wheeled rover can watch for hazards and maneuver around them and has a deck of solar panels, about the size of a kitchen table, for power. It can drive to the selected rock and extends an arm with tools on the end.

　　A microscopic imager, like a geologist’s hand lens, can give a close-up view of the rock’s texture. Two spectrometers can identify the composition of the rock and the fourth tool, which substitutes for a geologist’s hammer, can expose the fresh interior of a rock by scraping away the weathered surface layer.

　　Spirit will stop at Gusev Crater, a bowl bigger than the US state of Connecticut that appears to have held a lake long ago. Scientists will use the robot’s instruments to seek and analyze geological evidence about past environmental conditions in the crater.

　　If sedimentary rocks lie on the surface, they may yield telltale clues to whether the crater ever did hold a wet environment that might have been suitable for sustaining life, scientists said.

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Ho arrived here on Sunday

11 月 1st, 2008 by ky8ywduyum

CHENGDU, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) — China’s central government has pledged to help its Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) to cope with the impact of the ongoing international financial crisis.
It was revealed by Vice Premier Li Keqiang when meeting the SAR’s Chief Executive Ho Hau Wah in Chengdu, capital of southwest Sichuan Province on Sunday.

Ho arrived here on Sunday, leading a delegation of the SAR to attend the Ninth Western China International Economy and Trade Fair.

The Vice Premier said the central government would give all-out support to the SAR’s Chief Executive and government in administration in line with laws. It would actively assist the SAR’s government to maintain stability and prosperity of the region.

Li also praised the SAR’s government for promoting Macao’s exchange and cooperation with the country’s inland regions and hoped that Macao could make more contribution to economic construction and development in China’s western region.

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Exxon Mobil Corp

11 月 1st, 2008 by ky8ywduyum

NEW YORK, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) — Wall Street perked up Thursday, after the U.S. government reported better-than-expected GDP number. The Dow traded in a range of less than 300 points, showing some signs of stability.
The U.S. Commerce Department reported that gross domestic product, or GDP, decreased at a 0.3 percent annual rate in the third quarter, the biggest third-quarter decline since 2001. However, the decline is less than the 0.5 percent decrease that economists had expected.

In corporate news, Coglate-Palmolive, the world’s largest maker of toothpaste, reported a 19 percent rise in profit in the third quarter. Coglate jumped 7 percent.

American Express, the largest U.S. credit-card company, rallied3.4 percent, after the company announced 1.8 billion U.S. dollars cost-saving program, including 7,000 jobs cut next year.

Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, said its third-quarter profit jumped 58 percent to 14.8 billion U.S. dollars, breaking its own record for the biggest profit from operations by a U.S. corporation. However, Exxon rose less than 1 percent, as crude oil dropped and UBS AG cut its forecast for oil prices next year by 43 percent.

Avon products Inc., the world’s largest door-to-door cosmetics seller, posted its third-quarter earnings missed estimates. Avon tumbled more than 15 percent.

The Dow Jones rose 189.73, or 2.11 percent, to 9,180.69. Broader indexes moved higher. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index advanced 24.00, or 2.58 percent, to 854.09, and the Nasdaq 41.31, or 2.49 percent, to 1,698.52.

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Chinese president sends sympathy to Pakistani counterpart over earthquake

11 月 1st, 2008 by ky8ywduyum

BEIJING, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday sent a message of sympathy to his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari over a major earthquake that has killed at least 160 people in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province.
Hu said in the message that he was shocked upon hearing the news of the earthquake and felt pain over the great casualties and property loss in Pakistan.

The Chinese people are very sympathetic to the victims of the earthquake in Pakistan as they themselves are still recovering from a magnitude-8 quake that rocked China’s Sichuan province in May, Hu said.
The Chinese president extended his condolences to the victims and expressed the belief that the Pakistani people will overcome the difficulties and rebuild their homeland.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi also sent sympathy messages to their Pakistani counterparts on the same day.

At least 160 people were killed and many others were injured in a major earthquake that hit Pakistan’s Balochistan province early Wednesday morning.

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Letter that Changed My Life

9 月 6th, 2008 by ky8ywduyum

I was not yet 30 years old and was working as a firefighter in the South Bronx’s Engine Co. 82, probably the world’s most active firehouse at the time. It was warm and sunny, the kind of leisurely Sunday that brought extra activity to the neighborhood and to its firefighters. We must have had 15 or 20 calls that day, the worst being a garbage fire in the rear of an abandoned building, which required a hard pull of 600 feet of cotton-jacketed hose. 　　Between alarms I would rush to the company office to read Captain Gray’s copy of the Sunday New York Times. It was late in the afternoon when I finally got to the Book Review section. As I read it, my blood began to boil. An article blatantly stated what I took to be a calumny — that William Butler Yeats, the Nobel Prize-winning light of the Irish Literary Renaissance, had transcended his Irishness and was forever to be known as a universal poet. 　　There were few things I was more proud of than my Irish heritage, and ever since I first picked up a book of his poems from a barracks shelf when I was in the military, Yeats had been my favorite Irish writer, followed by Sean O’Casey and James Joyce. 　　My ancestors were Irish farmers, fishermen and blue-collar workers, but as far as I can tell, they all had a feeling for literature. It was passed on to my own mother, a telephone operator, who hardly ever sat down without a book in her hands. And at that moment my own fingernails might have been soiled with the soot of the day’s fires, but I felt as prepared as any Trinity don to stand up in the court of public opinion and protest. Not only that Yeats had lived his life and written his poetry through the very essence of his Irish sensibility, but that it was offensive to think Irishness — no matter if it was psychological, social or literary — was something to be transcended. 　　My stomach was churning, and I determined not to let an idle minute pass. “Hey, Captain Gray. Could I use your typewriter?” I asked. 　　The typewriter was so old that I had to use just one finger to type, my strongest one, even though I could type with all ten. I grabbed the first piece of clean paper I could find — one that had the logo of the Fire Department of the City of New York across the top — and, hoping there would be a break in the alarms for 20 minutes or so, wrote out a four-paragraph letter of indignation to the editor of the Sunday Book Review. 　　Throughout his poetry, I postulated, Yeats yearned for a messiah to lead Ireland out from under the bondage of English rule, and his view of the world and the people in it was fundamentally Irish. 　　Just as I addressed the envelope, the final alarm of my tour came in, and as I slid down the long brass pole, I felt unexpectedly calm, as if a great rock had been purged from the bottom of my stomach. 　　I don’t know why I felt it my obligation to safeguard the reputation of the world’s greatest poet, at least next to Homer and Shakespeare, or to inscribe an apologia for Irish writing. I just knew that I had to write that letter, in the same way a priest has to pray, or a musician has to play an instrument. 　　Until that point in my life I had not written much of value — a few poems and short stories, the beginning of a coming-of-age novel. I knew that my writing was anything but refined. Like a beginning artist who loves to draw, I understood that the more one draws, or writes, or does anything, the better the end result will be, and so I wrote often to better control my writing skills, to master them. I sent some material to various magazines and reviews but found no one willing to publish me. 　　It was a special and unexpected delight, then, when I learned something I’d written would finally see print. Ironically it wasn’t one of my poems or short stories — it was my letter to the Times. I suppose the editor decided to publish it because he was firs

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Care your dream

9 月 6th, 2008 by ky8ywduyum

My dream ended when I was born. Although I never knew it then, I just held on to something that would never come to pass. Dreams really do exist. But in the morning when you wake up, they are remembered just as a dream. That is what happened to me. 　　I always have the dream to dance like a beautiful ballerina twirling around and around and hearing people applaud for me. When I was young, I would twirling around and around in the fields of wildflowers that grew in my backyard. For hours I would dance as if people were watching me. I would dance so fast that I would forget where I was, until I would hear sounds that reminded me of where I really was. I thought that if I twirled faster everything would disappear and I would wake up in a new place. Reality woke me up when I heard a voice saying, “I don’t know why you bother trying to dance. Ballerinas are pretty, slender little girls. Besides, you don’t have the talent to even be a ballerina.” I remember how those words paralyzed every feeling in my body. I feel to the ground and wept for hours. 　　We lived in the country by a nearby lake and I would sometimes go there to hide. My parents were never home anyway and I did not like to be at home where I could hear the walls talking of pain. When they were home, my mother just yelled and criticized because nothing was ever perfect in her life. She dreamed of a different life but ended up living in a country far away from the city where she believed her dreams would have come true. 　　I enjoyed hanging out by the water. I would sit there for hours and stare at my reflection. There I was, looked nothing like a pretty ballerina dancer. Reflections don’t lie. Once the waves would come, my reflection was gone. Washed away just like my dream to dance. I sat there staring at the water, hoping that my reflection would reappear and be different. 　　As I grew older, I began to realize that

the reason my dream was even born in the first place, was because it was something that was inside of me. The dream I had was never nurtured and cared for, so it slowly died. It’s not that I wanted it to die, but I allowed it to die the day I started listening to the words, “You can’t do it.” When I finally woke up from many years of dreaming, I realized that you can’t settle for dancing in the wildflowers, you have to move on to the platform. I still go to the lake sometimes and sit there. Looking at my reflection is different now too. When I was young, I looked at how others saw me, now that I am older and wiser; I look at how God sees me.

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