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Features archive - September 2008

• China launches space walk mission
  SHANGHAI, China, 25 September 2008 (New York Times)
  China’s Shenzhou VII spacecraft blasted off at 9:07 p.m. Thursday, carrying three Chinese astronauts into space on this country’s third manned space mission ...
• China's grip still firm on Tibetan area
  GANSU, Tibet, 25 September 2008 (BBC)
  On the edge of Tibetan towns in this western province, special police officers carrying rifles stand guard behind checkpoints made of sandbags. ...
• As the dust settles
  LHASA, Tibet, 21 September 2008 (The Straits Times)
  After six months, normalcy has returned to Tibet. But the already fragile Tibetan-Han relations are now in tatters. ...
• Arctic ice in "Death Spiral," near record low
  ARCTIC, 17 September 2008 (National Geographic)
  The Arctic Ocean's sea ice has shrunk to its second smallest area on record, close to 2007's record-shattering low, scientists report. The ice is in a "death spiral" and may disappear ...
• Tibetan yaks join Lake Ann farm
  LAKE ANN, Michigan, US, 10 September 2008 (Record-Eagle)
  What gives pink milk, grunts, adores frigid weather and sports a renewable cash crop of fiber? Tibetan yaks — small, shaggy bovines that are low-maintenance and high-yield residents ...