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CONS Nobody seems to know exactly why (did you see Moonlight Mile?). Plus his name is really hard to pronounce...
POROUS BORDER The 506-mile (814-km) border with Iraq is a largely uninhabited, vast stretch of open desert. The Saudis say those attempting to cross could easily be spotted by patrols...
...think you were homosexual just because you wouldn’t have sex with her? Be serious! Were you ever taunted and made to feel bad or ‘uncool’ because of your choice? But most of all, be real. Kids can sense a phony a mile away...
...minimum of obstacles and a maximum of potential clues to the all important question of whether water has existed on the planet. The rover Spirit is thus headed for a formation known as Gusev crater, about 15º south of the Martian equator. Orbital photography has mapped a sinuous, 559-mile channel that slices into Gusev from the southeast and looks for all the world like a riverbed. "The water should have cut through that crater and then ponded," says Crisp. Spirit's instruments will scrutinize the crater floor, looking for evidence of lakebed sediment as well as particular minerals that...
What makes a middle schooler tick? Linda Perlstein, education writer for the Washington Post, decided to find out. With the dedication of an anthropologist, she moved to Columbia, Md., an economically mixed, multiethnic community. For almost a year she lived half a mile from Wilde Lake Middle School and embedded herself in the lives of its students. The result is Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). TIME talked with Perlstein...