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...characterize the planet's atmosphere, Charbonneau said that he will need a space-based instrument like NASA's Hubble Space Telescope...

Author: By Tara W. Merrigan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BRIEF: Harvard Researchers Discover 'Super-Earth' | 12/24/2009 | See Source »

Obama's family visit, like last year's, does not include any scheduled public appearances. Instead, the public will have to rely on the kind of chance encounters that made Obama as much a neighbor as a celebrity: taking in the Honolulu Zoo with his children, walking on the beach with his wife and playing pickup basketball with old friends. Sabina Yi, owner of Kokonuts Shave Ice & Snacks in Honolulu's Hawaii Kai, has a photograph on the wall of the day Obama stopped by last Christmas to buy a treat for his children. "We're all wishing that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama, a Favorite Son, Will Perk Up Hawaii's Holidays | 12/24/2009 | See Source »

...ukulele in the movie Blue Hawaii. "This is a vacation place and not a retreat for Obama," says University of Hawaii political science professor Neil Milner. "On his past visits, he would visit his old haunts and because of the way Hawaii is, you can't be secluded like former president Bush would be on his ranch in Texas." The locals have their cameras ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama, a Favorite Son, Will Perk Up Hawaii's Holidays | 12/24/2009 | See Source »

...want to be together, that is their decision. But adopting children is a different story," says taxi driver Isaac Villa, 35. "The couple may seem okay, but they could always have that seed of badness." Engineer Hector Cruz, 59, said he voted for the leftist PRD but didn't like the new ruling. "Children growing up in a gay marriage would be traumatized," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico City's Revolutionary First: Gay Marriage | 12/24/2009 | See Source »

...translate very well, particularly after Kim Jong Il's regime effectively stripped most of the nation of any personal savings three weeks ago. Each year underground worshippers in North Korea receive an array of presents from the outside world, including foreign-made clothes and candy, smuggled in by defectors like Jeong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Christmas Is (Not) Celebrated in North Korea | 12/24/2009 | See Source »

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