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...flying saucer plopped down on Washington's Mall. It carried two passengers, an alien called Klaatu (Michael Rennie), who had obviously visited us before, there being no other explanation for his perfect Oxonian accent, and a robot named Gort, who was played by a giant whose day job was doorman at Grauman's Chinese theater. The visitors represented an alliance of outer space planets and they were on a mission: to warn us earthlings to mend our warlike ways. Klaatu wanted to convene a conference of intellectuals and statesmen and to demonstrate the superior powers of the aliens by bringing...
...past the one who gave it directly to you. An infectious-disease expert, on the other hand, would not be satisfied to stop there. What about the person who passed the virus on to your colleague, the one before him and others earlier still? Contagious diseases operate like a giant infectious network, spreading like the latest YouTube clip among friends of friends online. We're social animals; we share. (See the Year in Health, from...
...Germany Light Shed on Black Hole After 16 years of observation, a team of German astronomers has confirmed the existence of a giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The black hole, known as Sagittarius A*, was detected by monitoring the motion of the stars surrounding it. Through this discovery, the astronomers were also able to more precisely measure Earth's distance from the center of the galaxy--27,000 light-years...
...does a body good. Actual: Gay characters were out of the closet; now they’re out of the tent and running for the Board of Supervisors. It does a political body good! 4. “Changeling” Sounds Like: A science fiction thriller about a giant people-eating bug. Actual: Angelina Jolie makes another Oscar bid after being passed over for “A Mighty Heart.” 5. “Quantum of Solace” Sounds Like: No freakin’ clue. Actual: No freakin’ clue—except that...
...some people backing him up. Despite the recent downturn, analysts remain bullish on the prospects of the China market. Lin says the car market will begin to pick up again in the second half of 2009, bolstered by the giant government economic stimulus packages that have recently been laid out in Beijing. That money, he argues, will rebuild confidence among nervous consumers. "In the long term, the China market is still quite promising," Lin says. Though that is undoubtedly true, the road getting there will be a bumpy...