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Even that makes Mars a far more fertile place than it once seemed, and for many space scientists, that's a good enough reason to go. Lack of funding or political will may yet scuttle the entire audacious moon-Mars enterprise. But for now at least, it appears that a human species that has kept itself confined to the home planet for the past 34 years may once again begin moving stepwise through the solar system...
...broker. In the past, Washington tilted to the Israelis' side but not so much that the Palestinians couldn't live with it. President Bush has turned the tilt into a slap-down. He says he supports Palestinian statehood, but the Palestinians don't hear the words; they grasp the lack of feeling he evinces for them. They take in the unprecedented silences in Washington when Israeli forces overreact; they wince at White House endorsements of what the U.S. used to call illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank. If James Baker had wanted to improve U.S. policy toward the Palestinians...
Before opening the school seven years ago, principal Karen Kodama surveyed 1,500 business leaders on which languages to teach (plans for Mandarin were dropped for lack of classroom space) and which skills and disciplines. "No. 1 was technology," she recalls. Even first-graders at Stanford begin to use PowerPoint and Internet tools. "Exposure to world cultures was also an important trait cited by the executives," says Kodama, so that instead of circling back to the Pilgrims and Indians every autumn, children at Stanford do social-studies units on Asia, Africa, Australia, Mexico and South America. Students actively apply...
TEXAS It's the worst with health insurance--24% of Texans lack...
...Meltzer said. “We just weren’t hungry and we were not wrestling well in general.” Specifically, Crimson head coach Jay Weiss pointed to Harvard’s inadequate number of take-downs as a measure of the team’s lack of aggression. Between ten players, the team managed only seven take-downs, well short of a number that usually lies in the twenties for the team. “When the whistle blows, we have got to ready for battle, and we weren’t today...