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...bright as the sun. The dim light coupled with the planet's close proximity places it in what astronomers call the habitable zone: the spot at which temperatures remain comfortable and water can remain liquid. All this has led to a fair amount of astronomical hyperventilating. "On the treasure map of the universe, one would be tempted to mark this planet with an X," said Xavier Delfosse, an astronomer with Grenoble University in France and one of the planet's co-discoverers. Dmitri Sasselov of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, went further, enthusing to The New York Times...
...hear the government's spokesmen tell it, the vote would determine nothing less than the future of the world. EITHER UNION OR CHAOS, a Pravda headline blared. "The disappearance of the Soviet Union from the world map," a TASS commentator pointed out, would "result in the disruption of the world's political and strategic balance." Certainly true, but whatever results the referendum might accomplish, eradication of the Soviet Union is not one of them...
...name brains settled for a spotty pop mixture based on the sounds of their former clients, and “Damn Thing” retains little of what used to be amusing about Lavigne’s music. The up-tempo punk-pop tunes that put Lavigne on the map seem to have devolved–something one would have thought impossible–into even simpler, standard fare. On this, her third solo album, Lavigne aspires to the same fuck-you pretension that marked her past two discs, but the sound is ultimately too polished to pull...
...cowboy” President in 2000 and again in 2004? Because of Reconstruction. Why is affirmative action still a hotly contested issue today? Reconstruction again. Why did America in the 80s favor Reganomics? Reconstruction. “This is the book that explains why today’s political map looks like a map of the 1860s,” Richardson writes of “West from Appomattox,” because apparently the pro-Union states are now all Democratic and the current Republican states had either not yet reached statehood or were Confederate. The book?...
Mugabe has also targeted some longstanding foreign adversaries. The West, particularly Britain and the U.S., is plotting to recolonize Zimbabwe, he says. That paranoia courses through every level of the country's security apparatus. A large map in Inspector Moyo's office highlighted in red "areas of political activity"--which turned out to be every town or large village. A directive on the wall reminded him his job was to "investigate all cases of a political nature, suppress all civil commotion and gather political intelligence." There was even a detailed procedure in case the station ever came under attack. Fear...