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...remarkable pair of documents, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte today laid out more detail in one place than the U.S. has ever openly released about the Central Intelligence Agency's once-secret prison system, as well as about the hardened al-Qaeda operatives who have called it home since their capture after the Sept. 11 attacks...
...pass judgment on what our foreign policy ought to be. Participatory democracy doesn't stop at the water's edge. As we move toward the 2008 presidential election, it's critical that candidates sketch out their worldview, their ideas about the Middle East and China, with all the detail and practicality that we expect of their health-care plans...
...things about post-Katrina New Orleans that weigh heavily on the souls of New Orleans musicians, it's the city's silence. It was the first thing legendary jazz pianist Henry Butler noticed when he returned to his hometown after Katrina. Blind, Butler relied on friends to detail the devastation of his Gentilly home, but his other senses served up a potent picture of what had befallen the city...
...remnants of the Big Bang was crude, but a series of increasingly sophisticated instruments, culminating in the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite in 2003, have laid bare the structure of the 400,000-year-old cosmos--only a few hundred-thousandths of its present age--in surprising detail. This was the baby picture Loeb referred to. At that point, the universe was still a very simple place. "You can summarize the initial conditions," says Loeb, "on a single sheet of paper." Some regions were a tiny bit denser than average and some a little more sparse. Most...
...anything, that's an understatement. The first galaxies to emerge from the blackness of the early universe can't be studied in detail until telescope technology makes another great leap. But Ellis and Stark may have got a glimpse--and given theorists the first hard evidence--of that unimaginably distant time when the cosmos left infancy behind and entered the formative childhood that led, eventually, to our sun and the tiny blue planet that circles it. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Illuminating a Dark Age How the universe grew from a murky soup...