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...What's more, there are plenty of far more promising places to hunt for life closer to home. Sunlight is not the only kind of energy that can fire the biological furnaces; so can subsurface heat. Jupiter's icy moon Europa is thought to have a rich, salty, globe-girdling ocean sloshing just beneath its surface rind of water ice. Very little solar light reaches so far into space, and even less makes it down to the dark ocean inside Europa. But the gravitational flexing of the little world caused by the movement of Jupiter's other moons heats...
...Valencia make this high-stakes bet? Status has something to do with it. In a world where opera is still seen as the highest of high culture, a striking new theater immediately heralds grand ambition. "Valencians are trying for something iconic," says Nicholas Payne, director of Opera Europa, the chief organization for professional opera companies and festivals on the Continent. "They're looking at Madrid and Barcelona, and saying, 'We're just as good...
...their star spouses with a Hollywood name. Thus Mangano played Penelope (and Circe) to Kirk Douglas' Ulysses; Loren was the honey to Anthony Quinn's Attila. Quinn, in Federico Fellini's La Strada, was the circus brute to the sad clown played by Fellini's wife, Giuletta Masina. Europa 51, directed by Roberto Rossellini, starred his then-wife Ingrid Bergman. Their grandest production - King Vidor's War and Peace, with Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn and her actor-producer husband Mel Ferrer - was also their biggest flop...
...President's schedule gives a hint: For much of the morning, the President will be in Sterling, Va., touring Europa Stone Distributors, Inc., and holding a "Roundtable on Taxes and the Economy." That promises to be a staid respite from what could be a raucous day back home...
...Worse still would be the potential loss of JPL's Mars Sample Return mission and a possible flight to Jupiter's icy moon Europa. The sample return project would be the capstone to a Mars exploration initiative that since 1996 has placed three rovers on the surface of the planet and two other ships in orbit around it, with a third orbiter set to arrive next week. Scrapping the Europa mission would be an even greater failure of imagination since the Jovian moon is widely considered the solar system's most tantalizing extraterrestrial place, with what may be a warm...