China's space menu revealed Friday, October 10, 2003 Posted: 10:01 AM EDT (1401 GMT)
HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- The much-anticipated launch of China's first astronaut is also set to take Chinese cuisine to new heights.
Although the identity of the astronauts has been kept a closely guarded secret, what they will eat has not.
In preparation for the historic flight, chefs have been hard at work creating space age versions of Chinese gastronomic favorites to travel to the stars, reports in state media say.
Among the dishes prepared for the zero gravity feasts are shredded pork with garlic sauce and stir-fried chicken, Web site China.com recently quoted one scientist as saying.
In all, some 20 dishes suited to the Chinese palette have been developed for the space program, to be served along with specially prepared vacuum packed rice.
Food is, after all, an important part of Chinese culture and mission controllers say it is important to ensure that China's space pioneers do not go hungry.
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Last Update: Friday, October 17, 2003. 9:46am (AEST) French magistrate tossed off the bench A French magistrate allegedly caught masturbating during a court session has been locked up and placed under investigation.
Justice officials in the south-western city of Bordeaux say police have requested a psychiatric evaluation of the magistrate.
The justice ministry has also been asked to temporarily suspend the magistrate, while the matter is being investigated.
A local newspaper reported the magistrate discreetly lifted up his robe while a lawyer was presenting final arguments, undid his pants, and "engaged in gestures that left nothing to the imagination".
"It's a boy", the Daily Mirror proclaimed confidently above its revelation yesterday that Sir Paul McCartney's wife Heather had given birth to their first child.
The London Evening Standard joyously followed suit, proclaiming on the front page: "A baby boy for Macca", with a further story inside headed "Heather's boy", using the same quotes that appeared in the Mirror.
The trouble was, it wasn't. At 11am yesterday, the couple released a statement expressing their delight with their baby who, they disclosed, enjoys the determinedly feminine name of Beatrice.
But by then the erroneous report had been picked up by broadcasters, news agencies and other newspapers and repeated around the world. The BBC, the Press Association, Reuters and Associated Press all reported it. But none could confirm it independently - the family's spokesman was not responding and the hospital was not taking press calls during the early hours.
It emerged yesterday that the story had originated with the Mirror's Scottish stablemate, the Daily Record. Its front-page headline was less specific about the baby's gender than the Mirror's version: "Macca's wee cracker", it said. The Record's story said it was a 7lb boy but introduced a note of uncertainty a few lines later.
Piers Morgan, the Mirror editor, said: "We need photographic evidence. What we want to see is verification."