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...Meek Sue to Inherit the Earth...
...headline that read, as I recall, "Second Coming Came and Went!" The story reported that Jesus had returned as He'd promised and taken all the chosen souls back to Heaven with Him. The rest of us, the unchosen, might have thought we were still on Earth, but we were actually living in Hell...
Astronomers are pretty sure that most of the water on Earth - and the water that probably flowed billions of years ago on the surfaces of Mars, and maybe Venus as well - came from icy comets, raining down on the newborn planets. As for where the comets came from, it's long been assumed that they formed directly out of clouds of interstellar gas and dust. That's why scientists are so interested in them: by studying comets, they figured they could get a handle on material that's been unchanged for billions of years...
...succumbed to India's vivid temptation to generalize," Theroux notes early on, "all you could do was utter a platitude so obvious it looked like a lie." Undeterred, two pages later he is pronouncing, "India was as near to life and death as it was possible to be on earth. But it was not one or the other: here was life in death and death in life...
...Asian T-rex - the paleontological paradise of Chaoyang is under threat. Farmers and dealers are hard at work disturbing potentially valuable sites in the race to find specimens to sell. In a cornfield outside of town, farmers have sliced open an entire hill. Layers of earth, each covering deposits millions of years old, protrude naked, leaving only broken slabs of rock. Along the road back into town, farmers ride bicycles with shovels lashed to their backs, returning home after a hard day's treasure-hunting...