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...Land mines are designed to maim, not to kill. They are weapons of terror.” Kalbusch said. “Producing a land mine costs about a dollar, removing it costs a thousand...
They detailed the U.N.’s work on world reproductive health, sustainable development, cooperation between businesses and the U.N., and land mine disarmament...
...supported extremophiles, micro-organisms living deep underground or in extremes of heat, pressure or toxicity, that represent a kind of rock-bottom definition of a living form. Many examples of these have been studied on Earth, including recent samples found 4 km beneath the surface, in a South African mine. One suggestion of Martian life emerged in 1996, when a meteorite from Mars that landed in the Antarctic region was found to contain what seemed to be fossilized microbial life. But the results are inconclusive; Pillinger and others argue that the fossils could have stemmed from contamination on Earth rather...
...year when new ideas were kicked to the curb like some dorky futuristic scooter. If someone came to you 10 years ago and told you that one of the biggest news stories of 2002 would be the rescue of a bunch of guys who work in a coal mine actually mining coal, you would tell Future Boy to get back on his dorky scooter and go home...
...polarizing as The Rising was unifying. When Eminem declared, "We need a little controversy ... it feels so empty without me," it was, like many of his lyrics, arrogant, self-aggrandizing--and true. Beyond the self-serving message--those other records are boring, so buy mine--the lyric was also a pointed rejection of the get-alongism that prevailed after 9/11. (As if his words weren't enough, he dressed up as Osama bin Laden in the video.) On the album's opening cut, White America, the rapper whose lyrics preoccupied moralists in Congress in the summer of 2000--when they...