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...SMSS maker Lockheed Martin. "You could [instruct it to go] to a point, and it would find its way to that location on the earth's surface. It is a very mobile vehicle. At one point the soldiers ran it into a ravine, and the vehicle was able to climb back out with no trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army Robots: Will Humans Still Be in Control? | 3/15/2009 | See Source »

...Wall Street tries to right itself, the global economic crisis is punishing many of the youngest Americans. Preliminary nationwide figures indicate that there were nearly 16% more homeless students in the 2007-08 academic year than in the previous year. And the number of homeless students continues to climb as more parents face foreclosure or the unemployment line. Of some 1,700 school districts surveyed this fall in a separate study, 69% said they had already counted at least half as many homeless students during the first few months of this academic year as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Homeless Kids in School | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...real draw for thousands of travelers are the lava spurts and cascades themselves. Visitors drive down the slope from the forested uplands of misty fern to the coastline of cracked rock to watch the molten lava rivers that regularly explode into the Pacific under massive steam clouds. The foolhardy climb over the heated ground to catch an up-close glimpse of the liquid rock, despite the pleas of the park service. (See 10 things to do in San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up Close and Personal with Hawaii's Volcanoes | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...Given these depressing circumstances, why should the United States consider it a moral imperative to include collaborative counterterrorism and human-rights concerns as major tenets of its foreign policy? Or, to paraphrase the cynics, is the United States about to climb back up on its moral high horse? I sure hope so. Even if we’re judging by solely our own standards, after eight years of secrecy and lies, some integrity would nice. Let’s start by approaching the aftermath of Guantánamo in the right...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: Guantánamania | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

...representative of several such grotesque lavatories. This is perhaps the first floor bathroom at its best – on crowded nights the smart public restroom aficionado will bring her own TP. A general rule of thumb for finals club facility usage: the more flights of stairs you climb, the better the bathrooms...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner | Title: Tales of a public restroom aficionado | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

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