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...internal furnace briefly restoked in several last gasps. These will swell the sun's outer layers so they engulf all the inner planets, including Earth, turning it into what astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson calls "a red-hot charred ember." The sun's red-giant phase will be brief, however. Shedding its heat and gases, it will become a cold, compact cadaver no bigger than Earth, a white dwarf lost in space...
...YOUR SEVERANCE. With job searches taking just more than three months on average, those with a brief severance period don't have much cushion. But a long severance period can give jobless people a false sense of security. Too often they take what they believe is a well-deserved break from the rat race. Employers are extremely wary of applicants with that kind of gap in their resume. A job seeker is like lettuce to the employer. The fresher you are to the hunt--a week or 10 days off to get the resume tuned up--the better. When...
...education "revolving around hitting and scolding." That helped make her grow up quickly and with an independent streak. "I wasn't like an ordinary little 13-year-old who is raised and coddled and guided every step of the way by their parents." She ran away from home for brief spells more than 10 times as a teenager. Finally, at age 16, she took off for six months. Remorse, or perhaps the discovery of even less love in the outside world, sent her back. "I noticed that my mother's hair had turned white and realized that they did care...
...their cold rooms. Unlike the Summer Palace in Lhasa, where you can visit the former private rooms of the Dalai Lama, tourists don't get to see the Karmapa's old bedroom. Tsurphu hasn't become a museum: it is still a working monastery. We have arrived during a brief break in afternoon prayers and are able to walk inside the dim, main meditation hall and, with the aid of a flashlight, inspect the frescoes in the eerie silence. Between the singsong pujas (prayer sessions) that are punctuated by bells and drums, all Tibetan monasteries are quiet. Tsurphu feels more...
This Donald rumsfeld guy: I'm worried that he's going a bit soft. The U.S. Secretary of Defense, who, if you believe half the stories about him, eats iron filings for breakfast, flew to Europe last week to brief NATO ministers on the Bush Administration's plans. In advance of the trip, it had been widely leaked that the Pentagon's systematic review of defense policy would mark a shift in America's priorities from Europe to Asia. On the flight over, Rumsfeld told journalists this had all been overplayed; Europe was still important, America had vital national interests...