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...Unfortunately, the project is currently on hold due to budget problems. "In principle, humans could probably launch such a mission in roughly a decade," Ford says. "In practice, I'd guess that it may be even further in the future...
...many ways a time capsule too. Mars, like Antarctica, was once warm and wet, but the slow loss of its atmosphere also meant the loss of much of its moisture and surface heat. Still, the place was warm and wet long enough for life to have taken hold - life that would have then had to retreat into underground water deposits and make the same kind of hurry-up adaptation Mikucki's microbes did. Similar adaptive metabolism could be in evidence on the Jovian moon Europa, where a layer of surface ice may cover a globe-girdling ocean. (See pictures...
...Take a Commercial Break. Domino's is between ad campaigns. The recent commercials featuring CEO David Brandon in Washington promising customers a "bailout" via $5 Domino's pizza have stopped airing, and the company plans to unveil new commercials within the next week. Put them on hold, says Subler, the brand expert. "There's no need for mixed messages right now," she says. Her logic: Let things cool down for a few weeks. Introducing TV commercials for a new product may only serve to recall the incident. And people may wonder why the company isn't addressing the negative news...
...meantime, Somali piracy has metastasized into the country's only boom industry. Most of the pirates, observers say, are not former fishermen, but just poor folk seeking their fortune. Right now, they hold 18 cargo ships and some 300 sailors hostage - the work of a sophisticated and well-funded operation. A few pirates have offered testimony to the international press - a headline in Thursday's Times of London read, "They stole our lobsters: A Somali pirate tells his side of the story" - but Lehr and other Somali experts express their doubts. "Nowadays," Lehr says, "this sort of thing is just...
...didn't know • acknowledgement of as torture in Bush administration memos finally released by the Obama administration that also describe lots of other "enhanced interrogation" techniques that "critics liken to torture" - like, say, repeatedly slamming people against walls ("walling") - but, hey, that's still no reason to hold the officials who authorized these illegal tactics, you know, accountable...