China probe on the Moon

China Lands Its First Unmanned Probe on the Moon

Progress Comes as the U.S. Scales Back Its Space 

Ambitions

      By COLUM MURPHY And CARLOS TEJADA 

Updated Dec. 14, 2013 12:09 p.m. ET

SHANGHAI—China on Saturday successfully landed its first unmanned lunar probe on the moon, in the latest milestone for the budding superpower's space ambitions.

The official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday that the Chang'e-3 lunar probe landed on the surface of the moon shortly after 9 p.m. Beijing time. The probe includes the lander and a lunar rover called Yutu, or "Jade Rabbit" in English.

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The lunar probe Chang'e-3 spreading its wings Saturday. Zuma Press

The mission is the latest big success for the Chinese space program. China's leaders have lavished praise on the space effort, with Chinese President Xi Jinping making high-profile appearances with program personnel. Mr. Xi and state-run media have invoked the space program in discussing what they call the China Dream, a vision for the nation's future that includes it rivaling the U.S. as a military and technological superpower.State broadcaster CCTV provided minute-by-minute analysis of the space craft's descent. A live link to the country's space center showed staff anxiously watching monitors and shouting out commands. They clapped after it landed.

Last year China completed its first manned space-docking mission, as the Shenzhou-9 capsule docked with China's Tiangong-1 space laboratory. The mission also included China's first female astronaut. China has set a goal for creating a space station that can house a crew for extended periods by 2020.

Close encounters

Lion forms close, rare bond with conservationists

Valentin Gruener and Mikkel Legarth raise Sirga as a cub after she was abandoned; pair seeks to save lion population through Modisa Wildlife Project

November 04, 2013 by David Strege

Mikkel Legarth with Sirga the lion at sunset; photo from Caters News Agency used by permission

Valentin Gruener and Mikkel Legarth play with Sirga as if she were a family pet. But while she is not a pet, Sirga is considered part of the family, as much as a lion can be part of a human family.
It is a touching bond that stretches back to when the two men rescued Sirga as a cub deep in the African bush and became the animal’s surrogate parents. Legarth told the U.K. Daily Mail that his bond with Sirga is similar to her being part of his pride.
“A pride had three cubs and two were killed before Sirga was abandoned without food,” Legarth told the Daily Mail. “It happened on our land and we could not stand by and watch her die.”

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A short story from a looooong way ........

By JONATHAN CHENG

In the 1990's, Cape Cod barbershop owner William Flynn invested his $150,000 nest egg in the stock market. At one point he had about a million dollars. Thirteen years and two stock crashes later, he is right back to where he started.

DENNIS, Mass.—As the stock market roared higher in the spring of 2000, Bill's Barber Shop was the place in town for a $10 haircut and a hot stock tip.

More than a decade later, Bill's shop is still standing. But it is $15 for a trim. And stock-market talk now is taboo.

So it was a special exception Tuesday afternoon, when William Flynn turned the TV briefly to the financial news and watched the Dow Jones Industrial Average notch a record closing high. After watching in a stoic silence, he switched the channel back to "Dr. Phil" and swept up hair clippings.

Mr. Flynn has been through two booms and busts in the 13 years since his investing travails were first chronicled in The Wall Street Journal. In those days, Bill's Barber Shop was a hub of stock-market fever. Mr. Flynn, a hefty former high-school hockey star with a handlebar mustache, was hot on technology stocks, with a special passion for data-storage company EMC Corp. EMC +1.46%

The next few years weren't so kind to him and millions of other investors. Most of those

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New height on the US Stock market

By CHRIS DIETERICH

NEW YORK—Blue chips continued to climb to new heights, pushing beyond the record levels reached in Tuesday's rally after a better-than-expected reading on the labor market.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 42.47 points, or 0.3%, to 14296.24 on Wednesday. On Tuesday ( March 5 ), the blue chips soared 126 points to punch through a closing level not seen since before the turmoil that ensnared the markets for 5½ years. Dow industrials have climbed for three sessions in a row and five out of the past six.

The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index tacked on 1.67 points, or 0.1%, to 1541.46. But the Nasdaq Composite Index fell 1.77 points, or 0.1%, to 3222.36, pulled down by Apple AAPL -1.27% and Google GOOG -0.86% .

Stocks have recovered with the aid of the Federal Reserve's aggressive efforts to boost the economy, strengthening corporate profits and a reinvigorated housing market.

"If you look at the equity market when we were at the same point back in 2007, two key sectors—housing and financials—were clearly rolling over," said Michael Shaoul, chairman of Marketfield Asset Management.

"This time, the homebuilding sector is taking off and the financial sector seems to be putting its big issues behind it, so we have key pieces of the economy with some acceleration behind them. I would say that, given we're in the middle innings of economic improvement, we should leave the 2007 levels well behind us," he said.

Stocks have gained ground this year at such fast clip that many investors have voiced concern that a pause is long overdue.