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Forty-eight years after mankind's first forays into space, the toxic orange haze covering Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has finally been penetrated. Ending a seven-year, 3.5 billion-kilometer voyage, the Huygens probe touched down on Titan last week, giving earthbound gawkers their first glimpse of its icy surface. Early transmissions from the 350-kg probe revealed a smog-shrouded landscape of boulder-strewn plains, winding drainage channels, and dark pools that may contain liquid hydrocarbon. While it remains unclear whether the Huygens data on Titan, which has been likened to a frozen version of early Earth...
December 26 was as a dark day for mankind. Without hyperbole, it stands out as one of the great tragedies of history. By now all are at least passingly familiar with the tsunami disaster that has consumed South Asia for the past two weeks. But many have conveniently repressed some of the more disturbing images while at the same time underestimating the sheer amount of human misery...
...Weatherhead said the projects funded by this endowment will be “for the benefit of mankind...
What are you wearing? Seven for all Mankind jeans, my friend’s vintage Diesel belt, H&M earrings, and jacket, bag and shoes all from Sweden...
...released sometime next summer. Far from a tiresome screed about the perils of globalization, Mondovino makes its argument by portraying the outsized personalities Nossiter finds across the spectrum of the wine-making world. We hear the emphatic musings of Languedoc vintner Aimé Guibert, who calls wine "mankind's quasi-religious relationship with the natural elements." Hubert de Montille, a hilariously irascible winemaker from Burgundy, points out that "where there are vines, there is civilization." Nossiter makes no bones about his allegiances. "We're in the thick of the battle for the survival of wine as an expression of individual...