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Kindle Me Delighted If Josh Quittner were elderly with macular degeneration, he would be as thrilled as my Kindle-loving 76-year-old husband [March 30]. The print can be made larger. It is so light, he can hold it. He doesn't lose his place. If his eyes get tired, a soothing voice can read to him. And it is so painless to use. Whiny kids in their 40s and 50s can complain, but for us, the Kindle is priceless. It has changed his life. Barbara Plungy, DENVER
...Hopeful astronomers are looking toward a NASA mission called the Terrestrial Planet Finder, or TPF - a space-based planet-imaging telescope capable of picking out the faint light of small exoplanets that would otherwise be lost in the glare of their own suns (almost all the exoplanets found so far have been detected indirectly). "Obviously," says astronomer Eric Ford, of the University of Florida, "we're anxious for TPF to be launched...
...wait may be long, but the astronomy community will be ready. In the meantime, we can only speculate that somewhere, many light years away, someone might be watching our own little speck gently flickering in the darkness...
Well, the Concert Commission must not have done a good job cleaning up those boys because they looked pretty damn greasy up on stage later that night. Next to all that laser light and steam clouds, they nearly glistened...
Twenty years ago, a question posed by Italian journalist Riccardo Ehrmann prompted an East German official to say the words that triggered the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now new facts have emerged that shed a different light on that fateful press conference...