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...There is only one hitch. Congress isn't about to pass the Freedom of Choice Act - because no such bill has been introduced in the current Congress...
...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 of the Mars Rover's five years in space...
...last time the Harvard men’s basketball team beat Yale, “Let Me Love You” by Mario topped the Billboard Hot 100 and Hitch reigned over the box office.Since then, the Bulldogs have taken six straight from the Crimson. Harvard (9-9, 1-3 Ivy) hopes to reverse that trend this weekend in its penultimate slate of home games. The Crimson faces Yale (7-11, 2-2 Ivy) tonight and Brown (6-12, 0-4 Ivy) tomorrow night at Lavietes Pavilion. Last weekend, Harvard dropped a pair of close games to Penn and Princeton...
...with intimate portraits and fresh figures - did you know the resale value of a stadium's worth of tickets exceeds $500 million, or that Americans consume eight million pounds of guacamole on game day? - that enliven the organizational challenge of carrying off the world's biggest bash without a hitch. The choice to ignore the superstars on the field in favor of the game's unsung laborers is a refreshing angle, even if he seems half-ready to douse them in Gatorade. Readers' reactions will likely hinge on whether they consider the Super Bowl the apotheosis of sport...
...that Folman chose to forget. After leaving the Israeli army at the end of his three-year hitch, he broke all contact with the men in his platoon. "I didn't call them, I ignored their reunions," he says, sipping Turkish coffee in his Tel Aviv studio. "I would've lived my life without dealing with [my war memories]." Then, in 2003, a chance encounter with a psychiatrist opened cracks in his willful amnesia. Soon after, the terrible secret of Folman's worst memory came rushing out: under orders, he and his men had guarded the outer ring...