2005.4.29=5:[#119]4703.3.21[#60+20/60]: [Planet.., Network] AAA tel.10 minutes. Dr. Chen Meeting. 1)US Safety & Economy. 2)Iraq. 3)China Trade/Titan.

[Planet] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3686106.stm [Climate] http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-6-129-2455.jsp [Network] http://www.pcguidebook.com/homenetwork.asp http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,115070,00.asp Cloudy cool gradually fair: Up 6:15, Homeowner ins. man in charge tel. 9-9:10, no more checking diary today. Emails to blog here for US Safety. Mei back 6:15, finish to go to dinner party. Hiro drives with 2 couples to Taiwan Legislator, Chen, Min-Jen, Ph.D. dinner party at Long War 12 persons x 4-5 tables, and later listen to his report and Q&A, criticizing Lien Chan and so on. Jung joins us back home, immediately dive to o.h. Lien Chan arrives Xi'an at 12:20am, speech 12:35-:53, bed 1:40. 1) US Safety & Economy: (1) Safer Now? "Bush administration eliminating 19-year-old international terrorism report", by Jonathan S. Landay; Knight Ridder Newspapers; Posted on Fri, Apr. 15, 2005: http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/11407689.htm "" WASHINGTON - The State Department decided to stop publishing an annual report on international terrorism after the government's top terrorism center concluded that there were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year since 1985, the first year the publication covered. Several U.S. officials defended the abrupt decision, saying the methodology the National Counterterrorism Center used to generate statistics for the report may have been faulty, such as the inclusion of incidents that may not have been terrorism. Last year, the number of incidents in 2003 was undercounted, forcing a revision of the report, "Patterns of Global Terrorism." "" (2) US Economy: "Stuck In The Spin Cycle", Robert L. Borosage; TomPaine.com; April 29, 2005: ""Robert L. Borosage, a veteran strategist and institution builder, is co-director of the Campaign for America's Future"": http://www.tompaine.com/20050429/articles/stuck_in_the_spin_cycle.php "" With the economy slowing, wages stagnant, the Republican Congress stained by scandal and his poll numbers plummeting, George W. Bush called only the fourth press conference of his presidency to stanch the hemorrhaging. "I have a duty as the president," he said, "to define the problems facing the nation and to call upon people to act." What are those problems? Social Security benefits are too high and must be cut? Oil and gas subsidies are too low and must be raised? No wonder more and more Americans are beginning to think this president is part of the problem and not the solution. "" 2) Iraq: "Recording and publicly releasing Iraqi civilian casualty numbers", by Marla Ruzicka USA Today 18 April 2005; 27 April 2005: "These statistics demonstrate that the U.S. military can and does track civilian casualties": "Aid worker's words — just a week before she was killed": http://globalresearch.ca/articles/RUZ504A.html "" BAGHDAD — The writer, a 28-year-old humanitarian aid worker from California, was killed Saturday in Baghdad when a suicide bomber aiming for a convoy of contractors pulled alongside her vehicle and detonated his explosives. Her driver also died. She filed this piece from Baghdad a week before her death. "" 3) China Trade & Neolithic Titan: (1) "US and EU to probe China textiles", BBC News; Last Updated: Friday, 29 April, 2005, 10:39 GMT 11:39 UK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4496131.stm "" China is one of the world's largest textile producers The US government has accepted a request from the US textile industry to investigate the sharp increase in imports of textiles from China. The European Union, too, has confirmed the launch of its long-expected inquiry into nine types of China-made clothing. But the EU's trade commissioner on Friday made a plea for Westerners to avoid protectionist thinking. Concern has risen over the level of Chinese textile imports since a system of trade quotas ended in January. "" (2) "Remains of Neolithic Titan discovered in S. China region", English.eastday.com, 25/4/2005 11:16: http://english.eastday.com/eastday/englishedition/nation/userobject1ai1045126.html "" Archaeologists in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, south China, have unearthed remains of an 180- centimeter-tall man from a tomb dating back more than 6,000 years. "Such a tall man was seen rarely in south China in ancient times," said Huang Xin, head of the Cultural Relics Management Institute of Youjiang District, Baise City. Huang is one of the archaeologists who took part in the recent excavation at the Neolithic site in Gongyuan Village, Yangxu Town of Baise City. ""