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Choosing the rocks most worthy of the attention of all this hardware won't be easy. J.P.L. scientists admit that Gusev Crater looks a little less pristine than they had hoped. Since the time its water vanished, the terrain may have been covered by lava, blasted by incoming meteorites, and then further eroded by millions of years of winds. It will take some doing to find the rocks that have been least affected by all that. Making a choice and then getting to a prize sample could take more than five days. On a mission that may last no more...
...violent of all 18 police districts in Los Angeles, with 118 murders in its 12 sq. mi. Mirroring the L.A.P.D. as a whole, cops in the 77th had become demoralized and cynical following the 1991 Rodney King beating and the 1999 police-corruption scandal in the Rampart district. Many admit they had adopted a "drive and wave" style of policing, in which they rarely got out of their car unless an actual crime had been committed...
...conflicts get resolved over the course of a marriage. The other 69% are perpetual, unsolvable problems." His insight: don't bother trying to fix the unfixable. Spend your energy on selecting a mate with whom you can manage those inevitable annoyances, then learn how to manage them. To admit some problems can't be solved is the first step toward finding a larger solution. Says Gottman: "We try to build up the couple's friendship, their ability to repair conflict and to deal with their gridlock...
Whenever you're wrong admit...
...case, an appeals court overturned the conviction of Oliver Jovanovic, a Columbia University grad student who had been sentenced to 15 years for kidnapping and sexually abusing an undergrad. Before the alleged assault, the woman had e-mailed her SM fantasies to Jovanovic. The trial judge had refused to admit the e-mail messages into evidence, but the appeals court held that while no one has a constitutional right to engage in SM, the e-mails would have shed light on whether Jovanovic reasonably believed that the woman had consented...