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Recruits are lured by financial incentives and programs that allow students to return to university after two years in the army with preferential standing for graduate school. Officials have introduced psychological tests to weed out unsuitable candidates and imposed penalties for ineligible applicants who try to bribe their way in. Also this year, for the first time candidates who want to be air force pilots must pass a language test in English or Russian.Undergraduates from outside Beijing may be offered Beijing residency, an important perk, in exchange for two years of service, according to a new policy under discussion, said another China recruitment official who spoke on condition of anonymity because a decision has not been announced.
For Zhou Hao, 20, a third-year journalism student at Tsinghua University, joining the army had been a childhood dream. He was unaware that university students were eligible until he spotted a recruitment poster and discovered financial rewards for signing up. Last week he headed off to join the Second Artillery Group in Chuxiong city, Yunnan province.

“I prefer to work for the government after I graduate, and I think my experience in the army will help me to get a position,” Zhou said. “I don’t think I really give up anything for the army. But one thing is that more eyes will look at you. So, there must be more pressure, which China headhunter will force me to do my best.”

China’s growing military budget has generated intense debate in Washington, where some analysts believe China’s defense spending is much higher than the $45.3 billion officially earmarked.

Whatever the amount, one Beijing-based military expert added that some of that money is going toward China’s military-education system.

“We didn’t use all those funds just for missiles or defense” but also for “better welfare” for troops, the expert said, noting that more than $1 million has been spent recently on uniforms.

Each mattress in the GeoEthic Collection has a core made of the new Memoform, which features aloe and castor plant oils in some models. The covers of the mattresses have different renewable fibers sourced from plant or marine life, including soy fiber in SoyGreen models, bamboo fiber in the Eco Bamboo model, corn fiber in the Mais Prestige model, and algae fiber in the SeaCell Emotion.GeoEthic mattresses retail from $2,399 to $6,499. The company says the new beds are made with non-toxic, renewable, organic materials, and reflect its long-standing commitment to preserving the environment.

“Magniflex has taken a global leadership position in the ‘eco’ bedding category by coming out with not one, but eight natural oil-based memory foam mattresses,” said Henry Burney, who heads U.S. operations. “We are very excited to add the GeoEthic collection to our mix of natural products that provide consumers with a comfortable, safe and restorative night’s sleep.

Complementing the new mattresses are three pillow models in the bamboo yarn, ranging from $159 to $179 per pillow. The GeoPremium pillow is made entirely of soy, from the core to the covering. The natural disinfectant and emollient properties of aloe are featured in the GeoStandard and GeoWave pillows

Major stainless steel mills have decreased core product prices for January in response to low demand from the domestic market.

Taiyuan Iron and Steel Group Co. Ltd (TISCO) said last Friday that due to the bearish sentiment of the domestic stainless steel market, it would decrease the ex-works prices of 304 series hot-rolled stainless steel sheet and 304 series cold-rolled stainless steel sheet by RMB 2,500 ($342.47) to RMB 29,900 ($4,095.89) and RMB 31,900 ($4,369.86) a tonne respectively, effective 1 January.

Furthermore, the company cut the ex-works price of 316 series hot-rolled and cold-rolled stainless steel sheet by RMB 3,000 ($410.96) to RMB 54,300 ($7,438.36) and RMB 57,200 ($7,835.62) a tonne respectively, though increased the ex-works prices of 430 series hot-rolled and cold-rolled stainless steel sheet by RMB 100 ($13.7) from 1 January.

Other major stainless steel mills followed the same price adjustment policies as TISCO, including Baoshan Iron and Steel Group (Baosteel Group), Ningbo Baoxin, Zhangjiagang POSCO and Qingdao POSCO, according to announcements released by the companies yesterday.

However, domestic market prices have fallen far below the ex-works prices due to slack demand and high stockpiles. For instance, 304 series cold-rolled stainless steel sheet of 2.0 mm thickness traded in Shanghai on Wednesday at RMB 29,800 ($4,082.19) a tonne, RMB 2,100 ($287.67) or 6.58% lower than the ex-works price of RMB 31,900 ($4,369.86) a tonne offered by major steel mills.

Major stainless steel mills had previously agreed to cut production by 40% for the month of January to combat the falling prices of stainless steel products on the domestic market.

TISCO, the largest stainless steel coil in China, announced on Tuesday it produced 2.02 million tonnes of stainless steel in 2007, soaring 82.05%from last year. However, the figure was still lower than the 2.4 million tonnes the company estimated in early 2007, due to reduced production during the year.

Brass for brass fitting is extruded into round bars, cut to length and then straightened. After straightening, the bars are cut into short lengths (slugs), reheated to the pliable state and pressed between upper and lower die cavaties at a pressure in excess of 25,000 pounds per square inch. After cooling, the excess material is trimmed away and the forged blank is ready for machining. This process produces a uniform piece of brass valves with exceptional strength. Because the grain flow follows the barb hose contour of the blank, the finished fitting has high impact strength and is resistant to mechanical shock and vibration.

Britain’s monarchy is becoming environmentally-friendly, but with a high-tech twist.

Prince Charles gave a speech at the World Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi without actually being there.

Instead, this life-like 3-D hologram presented his whole speech without the high cost of travel.

The prince says it’s his way of cutting back on his “carbon footprint.”

They say his 3-D speech saved around 15 tons of carbon dioxide.

Backers of the holography think others will like the idea of being in two places at once.

Holograms are photographic images that are three-dimensional and appear to have depth. Hologram s work by creating an image composed of two superimposed 2-dimensional pictures of the same object seen from different reference points. Holography requires the use of light of a single exact wavelength, so lasers must be used. In reflection holograms, the kind of holographic that can be viewed in normal light, two laser beams and a photo graphic plate are used to take an image of the object.

Both laser beams used in a holography go through beam spreaders, which spread the laser light out like a flashlight. The coherence of the beam is lost, but it remains an exact wavelength. One beam illuminates the object from the side. The other beam, known as a reference beam, travels through a photographic plate and hits the object head-on, similar to the way in which a conventional camera takes a 2-D image. The reflecting light from the reference beam leaves an image, or hologram , on the photographic plate, but so does the light reflected by the object from the side beam. The result is a photographic plate that registers two images simultaneously, creating a hologram .

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