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...fact, such a directive already exists in some form - the international Outer Space Treaty of 1967, which governs the legal framework for activities in space. Best known for banning governments from putting nuclear weapons into orbit, the treaty also requires space-faring nations to avoid "harmful contamination" of other worlds while exploring the solar system. Human beings have yet to set foot on other planets, so the risk today comes from bacteria that can hitch a ride on unmanned spacecraft like NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander, which arrived on the red planet's surface last May. (See pictures...
...Incredibly, India is putting up fencing on the islands, too. On Masalabari, the most stable of the char islands, huge concrete cylinders that will form the base of a 53/4-mile (9.3 km) length of fence are lined up on the sand. The Central Public Works Department carried them out by boat during the summer monsoon, when water levels were high enough to transport heavy equipment, and they will eventually support the fencing that will separate the Indian side of the island from Bangladesh...
...season's monsoon floods were subsiding. "And the threat to its survival has come from a flood of another kind - the flood of illegal migrants from neighboring Bangladesh. Now, India is facing not only the threat of infiltration, but also of terrorism from Bangladesh ... India is facing a new form of cross-border terrorism in the east, just as we have been facing it for the past three decades from Pakistan in the west...
...have their work shown to an eager audience. And for at least that moment, I was happy to have talked about myself to celebrities, eaten free food and drunk an enormous quantity of free absinthe. In fact, Defamer.com called me "the most coddled noncelebrity at Sundance." Which could form the basis of a pretty good short for this June's CineVegas festival...
...Runnin” is a drawn-out, dreamy moment of calm on the album’s B-side, whose progression of successively hyperactive dance tracks terminates in the closer, “Brother Sport.”Debuted on the band’s last tour in long form, “Brother Sport,” a distinctively Lennox-penned track, simultaneously encapsulates the music that comes before it and renders it obsolete. In lieu of verses, the song builds up momentum through three separate sections, each with its own chorus, that shift into one another and arrive...