Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Longest-Serving Prime Minister, Dies at 67
Mr. Abe was shot on Friday during a campaign event. Before he left office in 2020, he helped pull his country out of economic malaise but fell short of his most cherished goal: to normalize Japan’s military after decades of postwar pacifism.
Prof. Karla Satchell of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is leading a national team of scientists to find the vulnerability in the architecture of the 2019 coronavirus to stop it from replicating. http://spr.ly/618219F7A
Scientists have fulfilled an Egyptian priest's wish for life after death — by replicating his voice with artificial vocal chords.
Scientists have fulfilled an Egyptian priest's wish for life after death — by replicating his voice with artificial vocal chords.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Japan has agreed to resume importing Northwest soft white wheat two months after a genetically modified rogue strain of the crop ...
War Ritual Aggravates Island Row
Japanese clad in period military uniforms gathered at the Yasukuni
Shrine in Tokyo for the 67th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World
War II. As Japan marked the anniversary, strains in relations with its
neighbors were otherwise evident Wednesday as South Korea and China
issued fresh criticism of Japan's wartime past. China also said it would
protest the detention of Hong Kong activists who embarrassed Tokyo with
a high-profile landing on a disputed island in the South China Sea,
despite having been tracked by up to 10 ships from Japan's coast guard.
“I do not think it is connected to any other action or event,” Mrs. Clinton said. “We have followed the Chinese development of aerospace capacity for quite some time, and this had been foreshadowed some weeks ago.”
It has been many years since pupils and parents heard the clothing-store jingle that used to signal the beginning of the end of summer vacation: “School bells ring and children sing, ‘It’s back to Robert Hall again.’ ” Today, the resumption of classes is foreshadowed by campaigns for office-supply chains, seeking to sell notebooks, pens, staplers, markers, crayons and other back-to-school merchandise.
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Gas resumption "shortly", say Russia, Ukraine
After crisis talks in Moscow, the prime ministers of Russia and Ukraine have said jointly that natural gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine will resumed "shortly."
Taiwan-China meet begins to 'thaw the ice': president-elect 1 day ago TAIPEI (AFP) —
Weekend talks between Chinese President Hu Jintao and Taiwan's vice president-elect have started to "thaw the ice" in ties between the rivals, the island's incoming president Ma Ying-jeou said Monday.The landmark meeting on Saturday between Hu and Taiwan's Vincent Siew on the sidelines of a regional forum in Hainan, southern China, "has started to thaw the ice across the strait," Ma told reporters.Ma, who takes office on May 20, said he was encouraged by the Hu-Siew talks, which were the highest-level contact between the two sides since they split in 1949 at the end of a civil war."We'll push for the reopening of cross-strait negotiations after May 20," said Ma, of the Beijing-friendly Kuomintang (KMT) party.
"Thanks to the Boao meeting, some of the barriers for the resumption of talks have been removed," he said. "The mainland authorities displayed goodwill at the forum."Ma, who won the March presidential election in a landslide, campaigned on a pledge to boost Taiwan's sluggish economy.As part of that pledge, he vowed to improve relations with China, increase trade, tourism and transport links, and work on a peace treaty to end hostilities.He will succeed outgoing President Chen Shui-bian, who angered Beijing over the past eight years with his pro-independence rhetoric.
China still views Taiwan as part of its territory awaiting reunification, by force if necessary.The incoming president said Hu and Siew had exchanged views on cross-strait economic relations in a "natural, friendly and constructive atmosphere".
Ma also said that Beijing had "responded positively" to Taiwan's proposals on weekend charter flights and a further opening-up of the island to mainland tourists."That would make it easier in carrying out our policies after we take office," he said, adding that civilian bodies representing both sides had nearly completed technical talks on the two issues over the past few years.Taiwan has banned direct trade and transport exchanges with the mainland since 1949, and visits to the island by mainland tourists are severely restricted.
Ma said he would name KMT vice chairman Chiang Pin-kung as Taiwan's chief negotiator in dealing with China.Chiang will head the semi-official Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), which is in charge of civilian exchanges between the island and the mainland."SEF will be responsible for handling cross-strait relations, with the authorisation of the Mainland Affairs Council," Ma said, referring to Taiwan's top China policy decision-making body.Beijing unilaterally called off rapprochement talks in 1995 to protest the controversial US visit by the island's then president Lee Teng-hui, claiming it was part of his efforts to promote independence.
Siew said "no timetable" had been set for the normalisation of trade and economic ties with China.A cautious Ma added: "As cross-strait ties did not become frosty overnight, and the icy mountain is big, it may take a long time to melt the ice."
replicate
Line breaks: rep¦li|cateDefinition of replicate in English:
VERB
Pronunciation: /ˈrɛplɪkeɪt /
1.1(replicate itself) (Of genetic material or a livingorganism) reproduce or give rise to a copy of itself:interleukin-16 prevents the virus from replicating itself
1.2Repeat (a scientific experiment or trial) to obtaina consistent result:these findings have been replicated by Metzger and Antes
ADJECTIVE
Pronunciation: /ˈrɛplɪkət /
1.1Of the nature of a repetition of a scientificexperiment or trial:the variation of replicate measurements
NOUN
Pronunciation: /ˈrɛplɪkət /
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late Middle English (in the sense 'repeat'): from Latinreplicat-, from the verb replicare, from re- 'back, again' + plicare 'to fold'. The current senses date from the late 19th century.
verb FORMAL
1 [I or T] If an activity resumes, or if you resume it, it starts again after a pause:
Normal services will be resumed in the spring.
[+ ing form of verb] He stopped to take a sip of water and then resumed speaking.
The talks are due to resume today.
2 [T] If you resume a place or position which you have left for a period of time, you return to it:
to resume your post/job
Please resume your seats, as the performance will continue in two minutes.
resumption
noun [S or U] FORMAL
The president called for an immediate ceasefire and a resumption of negotiations between the two sides.
fore·shad·ow (fôr-shăd'ō, fōr-)
tr.v., -owed, -ow·ing, -ows.
To present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand; presage.
foreshadower fore·shad'ow·er n.
nor・mal・ize
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