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Luckily, space is a gold mine. A geologist by training, Benson points out that all those comets and asteroids tumbling around in near-Earth orbit contain water and minerals. Water's components--hydrogen and oxygen--are the building blocks of life and a darn good rocket fuel as well. Some estimates put the number of asteroidal water deposits at 5 million. Some metallic asteroids have 100 times the concentration of gold of any mines on earth today. (Earth's gold results from some of those asteroids crashing into the planet.) "While exploration is going on, we can use those natural...
Brring! will even allow users to customize ads to their friends’ tastes in return for more money. Immediately, we are confronted by a range of other ethical concerns regarding personal information—does any acquaintance of mine have the right to release my information to any advertising company that asks? Gmail, notoriously, already uses a client’s e-mail content and searches to provide specifically correlated advertisements in the margins—but at least such information is wholly under the user’s control...
...television interview on February 3, the constant comparisons with Bachchan seemed to get to Khan. "That was your generation, this is mine," he replied, curtly, to one question. "He does his age, I do my age." Bachchan said comparisons were unfair. "I am 25 years older than him. If you want to do an honest comparison, you should wait for him to get to 65 and then see how he fares with the Box Office king at that point in time...
...also critical that you display confidence in yourself. Be wary, however, as I’ve found that displaying confidence can often be very dangerous. For instance, in one interview of mine the first question asked was, “What year are you?”, to which I, displaying astounding self-assurance and poise, confidently responded with “Eric Kester.” Unfortunately this scenario doubles as an example of a “don’t” in the “good first impression” category...
...Illinois a week before the 2000 election, Franken joked that "It would be much easier for me as a comedian to have Bush as President. It would be a gold mine...