Word: childe
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...that "most people are neither pro-choice nor pro-life but both" is ill informed. Since January 1973, Americans have clearly understood this issue and been sharply divided on it. But just in case Gibbs isn't clear: pro-life means, Don't take the life of an unborn child. Pro-choice means, The wants or needs of the pregnant woman supersede the idea that human life is valuable. And the Gallup poll suggests more people are valuing human life. There's no confusion here. This isn't above my pay grade. Therese Stenzel TULSA, OKLA...
...year contract working alone in a station on the lunar surface. All that time alone, with only a talking computer and some old TV shows as company, has made Sam edgy; he can't wait to be picked up and taken back to Earth, to his loving wife and child. His anxiety escalates to horror when he discovers someone else in the station: another Sam Bell. Yikes, there's a clone on board. Or could the clone be our Sam? (See TIME's top 10 science-fiction movies from the 1950s...
...also must raise the matter of Jones' pedigree - he is the son of David Bowie, and as a child was called Zowie Bowie - but only because there is an tantalizing connection between a song of the father and the film of the son. Bowie's Space Oddity, from 1969, takes its punning title from the Kubrick movie the year before. Released nine days before the Apollo 11 moon landing, and played by the BBC in its coverage of the event, it describes the communication of a lonely astronaut: "This is Major Tom to Ground Control... / Here am I sitting...
...their partisans in the blogosphere, where her case has been strenuously debated, behind her beatific smile lies a psycho hedonist capable of depraved murder. But family and friends insist she's just a granola-crunching athlete and honor student from Seattle who has, through bad luck, become the poster child for the perils that await American girls caught up in the dark side of Italy...
...packed hearing in a medieval building in the vertiginous central Italian hill town of Perugia, in a room with restored Madonna-and-child frescoes on a back wall, Knox painted herself as the victim of a false confession in which a seemingly sympathetic Italian police interpreter described her own traumatic experience that made her "forget what happened" and then suggested the same psychological syndrome might have affected Knox. "It was a complicated situation," Knox said, describing how she confessed to being in the cottage and falsely accused her former boss of murder as well. Knox now says she spent...