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...some others to levy compulsory taxes on airline tickets to pay for development aid. But the reception to this initiative has been friendly, because the donations are voluntary. "Travel is already taxed pretty highly," says Gordon Wilson, the CEO of Travelport GDS, which runs two big reservation systems, Galileo and Worldspan. But asking people if they are willing to donate is a different issue: "The overall response is that it makes people feel good about travel but also embraces responsibility," Wilson says. (See 50 essential travel tips...
Salient: 1. Ultraconservative fortnightly (their word!) publication, descended ideologically from the people who prosecuted Galileo...
...were known fact, but it isn't. It's a theory within a very speculative field of science, cosmology, which is about as speculative as it gets. I'm not saying the Big Bang theory isn't true, but it's a work in progress. (Watch TIME's video "Galileo and the Year of Astronomy...
...hadn't defended the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad ... we would have renounced the principles of European democracy. Self-censure means the end of the debate. Imagine how many museums it would be necessary to close, how many musical groups it would be necessary to silence; Galileo and Darwin would have had to abandon their research, and Monty Python would not have been able to film The Life of Brian. The EU must most vigorously defend individual freedoms, and human rights are not there to shield religions against criticism and debate." - Interview with EUdebate2009.eu, November...
...Midi can be eerie in colder months, when freezing mists swirl around the domes and antennas, but on clear nights, when the skies are blazing with stars, it is as close to heaven on earth as astronomers can imagine. Galileo would have loved...