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Finally, the bad news: 2007 WD5 has only a 1-in-75 chance of actually hitting Mars, which means astronomers would be wise to be pessimistic. But the possibility of impact calls to mind a loosely related incident that occurred almost exactly 100 years ago, when something exploded above the Tunguska region of Siberia, flattening trees in a 25-mile radius, their trunks pointing outward from the epicenter of the blast. Scientists are pretty sure it was a comet or asteroid - about the same size as 2007 WD5, as it happens - that disintegrated from its own shock wave...
...what they've just done.) They go to France for a great meal, Africa for a safari, Egypt for the Pyramids, India for the Taj Mahal, Nepal to scale Mount Everest. Carter not only gets to drive that new car - a Mustang Shelby, prominently placed for maximum commercial impact - he gets to smash it up on a racetrack. If the Make-a-Wish Foundation had an outreach program for adolescent alterkockers, this would be the dream list...
Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo announced last week that he was withdrawing from the race for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. Right after that surprising announcement in Des Moines, he sat down with TIME to reflect on the impact he's had on the race and how he hopes to continue exert influence with his endorsement of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Excerpts...
TIME: What impact has your candidacy had on the race? TANCREDO: The thing that got me into the race was the issue of illegal immigration and a much bigger picture of the society, of the culture itself and what was happening to it with the Balkanization of America, the bilinguilization of America; the things that are pulling us apart... instead of pulling us together, the lack of assimilation that's occurring among the people who are coming here. All these things that I felt were of major importance to the nation and I felt that no one else was addressing...
...quantify that impact? You've got every Republican candidate now - you know you've got [Arizona Senator]John McCain even now saying that that was the biggest mistake he ever made was taking the wrong side of this issue. You've got [former New York City Mayor] Rudy Giuliani running ads talking about securing the border. Every candidate has now come up with a plan and they'd all secure the borders, go after illegal immigration and crack down on employers. They all have the basics now... And we have the Democrats now talking. I mean look at what happened...