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Japan' pulls off stunning upset over Cuba in baseball

ATHENS, Greece - Daisuke Matsuzaka pitches against Cuba in a preliminary round game at the Olympic Baseball Center in Athens on Aug. 17 at the 2004 Olympic Games. Japan won 6-3.

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Namie Asazuma, translator of 'Hadashi no Gen'(Barefoot Gen)

TOKYO, Japan - Namie Asazuma heads a group of mainly housewives in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, which has translated into English ''Hadashi no Gen'' (Barefoot Gen), a well-known Japanese comic book series about a boy who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. San Francisco-based Last Gasp will publish the first two of the saga's 10 volumes by Aug. 6, 2004, the 59th anniversary of the bombing.

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Wahid may only last until Aug., Megawati aide says

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Arifin Panigoro, deputy chairman of Indonesia's largest political party, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-Perjuangan), speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Jakarta on March 6. He said Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, who insists he will serve a full term until 2004 despite growing calls for his resignation, will be lucky to last through August.

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China's largest freshwater lake records lowest water level

STORY: China's largest freshwater lake records lowest water level DATELINE: Sept. 23, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:10 LOCATION: NANCHANG, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Poyang Lake STORYLINE: The water level at Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake in the eastern province of Jiangxi, dropped to its lowest on Friday morning since record-keeping began in 1951, said local authorities. The water level at the lake's landmark Xingzi hydrological station receded to 7.10 meters at 6 a.m. on Friday, said the provincial hydrologic monitoring center. The previous record, set in February 2004, stood at 7.11 meters. The center noted that the lake saw a rapid decrease in water levels due to continuous high temperatures and low precipitation in Jiangxi since late June and relatively less water flowing in from the Yangtze River. Poyang Lake entered dry season this year on Aug. 6, 92 days earlier than the average since 1951. The center issued a red alert for low water on Friday for the first time since t

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Japan' pulls off stunning upset over Cuba in baseball

ATHENS, Greece - Daisuke Matsuzaka pitches against Cuba in a preliminary round game at the Olympic Baseball Center in Athens on Aug. 17 at the 2004 Olympic Games. Japan won 6-3.

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Namie Asazuma, translator of 'Hadashi no Gen'(Barefoot Gen)

TOKYO, Japan - Namie Asazuma heads a group of mainly housewives in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, which has translated into English ''Hadashi no Gen'' (Barefoot Gen), a well-known Japanese comic book series about a boy who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. San Francisco-based Last Gasp will publish the first two of the saga's 10 volumes by Aug. 6, 2004, the 59th anniversary of the bombing. (Kyodo)