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...Although images of the landing site, a nearly featureless plain marked by polygon-shaped cracks, may not dazzle jaded space buffs, scientists are thrilled. "I know it looks like a parking lot," said principal investigator Peter Smith, "but there's ice under that surface. This is a scientist's dream...
...consumer-electronics company called Roku, in partnership with Netflix, has just launched a set-top box that brings us tantalizingly close to my dream. The Netflix player by Roku ($99 at netflix.com is a black, palm-size device that connects your broadband network to your TV (wired or wirelessly). For as little as $8.99 a month, you can have unlimited access to Netflix's library of more than 10,000 movies and TV shows on demand. Watch what you want, instantly, for as long as you want. You can even start a movie on your home TV and finish watching...
...Mondale, a Democrat, felt he had to straddle the line between opposing gay lifestyles and approving of them, telling his political allies, “The trick is to say you’re against discrimination without endorsing their lifestyle.” Most mainstream candidates today would not dream of condemning gay voters. That a Democratic candidate could have said this as recently as twenty-five years ago serves to show the degree this struggle has advanced and what vast numbers of people can be won over...
...centuries, a house of one's own gave an Englishman not just privacy and status; until 1832, those in the countryside had no right to vote without property of a certain value. Small wonder, suggests Stuart Lowe, a housing expert at the University of York, that the English dream of home ownership has become "a deep cultural issue...
...done with killing when he left the Democratic Republic of Congo. After civil war erupted there in 1998, he watched friends, family and millions of his countrymen die as neighbor turned on neighbor. Seven years ago, he arrived in South Africa, the continent's richest country, to pursue his dream of becoming a doctor in Africa's best schools. Now, seeking refuge from murderous crowds in a central Johannesburg police station, he feels as vulnerable as he did back in Congo. "They're our own neighbors - we lived together, and I gave them food," he says. "Then I saw them...