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I may be the last to weigh in on this story, but at least I'm the most skeptical. Last week, the Houston Chronicle reported on a new analysis of Neil Armstrong's first words as he became the first human to...
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China picks top 30 songs for moon satellite...
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We haven't heard much news from Mars lately, but that's only because the two most important missions exploring the red planet have been getting themselves into position for some spectacular imagery--and it all came together today, as NASA presented extraordinary...
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In its most oversimplified formulation, the process that drives evolution--that is, natural selection--is known as survival of the fittest. Organisms with some inborn advantage in staying alive and healthy will reproduce more than their competitors, and have more offspring with...
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When it comes to getting publicity, planet-hunters are victims of their own success. All told, they've found more than 200 alien worlds orbiting distant stars over the past decade. That's great if you want to understand the range of possible...
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NASA/JPL IMAGE COURTESEY OF DAN SCHEERES AND STEVE OSTROFrame from a movie showing a radar-derived computer model of near-Earth binary asteroid (66391) 1999 KW4. The larger component is about 1.5 kilometers in diameter and rotates once every 2.8 hours, and...
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I liked Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth a lot--but while it was mostly right on the money about the science of climate change, I had to cringe every so often as Gore said or implied a few things that...
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You may see some stories in the next few hours or days about the development of an Invisibility Cloak by scientists at Duke University, based on research at Imperial College, London. You'll probably have to read well past the headline...
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Early humans were walking around Africa 2 million years ago, but not South America, and thank goodness. Imagine having to run from a fast running, carnivorous, ten-foot-tall bird with a powerful, hooked beak--and presumably, a healthy appetite. Fossils of these...
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Polls show that the public trusts Democrats as much as Republicans to handle foreign affairs. But Democrats are torn between two visions of their history.
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The phenomenon that took hold in 1998 with Saving Private Ryan may be, like that last good war itself, a thing of the past.
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Patrick Seale ("Israel's scandalous siege of Gaza," Views, Oct. 28) has no problem with Palestinians electing Hamas, an admitted terrorist group, to lead their government.
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Spookspeakers should clearly express their analyses in plain English.
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If the Latin Mass was good enough for Jesus, it was good enough for us.
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Migration has special resonance when one is about to hit the milestone of middle age - I see the day coming when I'll be flying south for winter, too.
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All the harvests are in, the frost is on the ground, there's mist in the crisp night air and it's time to tell ghost stories.
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To admit that the war is going badly cannot have been easy for such an inflexible individual as George Bush, who is unreceptive to what some may call reality.
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Opinions from around the world.
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American businesses are receiving patents for devising ways to obey the law - the tax code, to be more specific. What's next, a patented murder defense?
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Putin's callous remark on the murder of Russian journalist Politkovskaya reflects an attitude that is all too common among power holders in Potemkin democracies.
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About the last thing the United States ought to be doing in Iraq is funneling weapons into black-market weapons bazaars.
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By Michael Barone October 31, 2006 What's with the polls? In 2004, the electorate that went to the polls or voted absentee was, according to the adjusted NEP exit poll, 37 percent Democratic and 37 percent Republican.
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Scientific research over decades has confirmed that children who cannot read at grade level by the fourth grade are destined to face an ongoing struggle to learn and a lifetime of diminished success.
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Madonna's taking a lot of heat for adopting an African child shortly after Angelina Jolie did the same. But I'm confident neither kid is going to mind. Every child deserves a home, even the home of a millionaire entertainment icon.
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The New Jersey Supreme Court's decision in Lewis and Winslow, et al v. Harris last Wednesday requiring the state to recognize homosexual unions on the same terms as heterosexual marriages might have been magnificent sermonizing. It was not judging.
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