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...kind of prebiotic broth believed to have given rise to life on Earth, though Titan's bitter cold would have flash-frozen any biological processes before they got started. "Titan is so cold that the water is frozen out, whereas here it's liquid," says Jonathan Lunine, a mission scientist. "But that's why it's probably such a good snapshot of early Earth...
Bush, more so than a John Kerry or a Hillary Clinton, can hold the allegiances of the bloc of voters most likely to decry such humanist missions abroad. That gives him the political capital necessary to venture into forgotten places like Sudan or Haiti, where the moral worth of the people who live there is often denigrated by the American public and news media to the point where we view them as almost subhuman. The American public, as of right now, refuses to tolerate the loss of American soldiers and the general expense necessary to improve the lives...
...this optimism of course begs the question, if Bush is so committed to this vision, why has he not acted where he could have already? Why did he abandon the mission in Liberia? Where is the democratic institution building in Haiti? What about military intervention in Sudan? This also, of course, brings to the forefront concerns about how readily Bush violated Iraq’s sovereignty without the support of the global community—a trend that could not continue if this larger mission were to ultimately be successful. For some, Bush’s troubled relationship with...
...starting in Russia with huge dreams. We have four stores and a shopping center, but we'll operate in the red for five to 10 years. We can take it, because we don't have [shareholders] coming to us every quarter asking for results. We have an important social mission there. Our [guiding principle] is to produce products for the majority of people. Hopefully, [we will help] the standard of life in Russia rise. In China we have only two stores, but we have lots of land to construct on, so I think we'll be rather big there...
...Each person has a mission on earth. My mission was to prove that women who want to have children can do it." ADRIANA ILIESCU, 66-year-old Romanian thought to be the world's oldest mother, on giving birth last week to a daughter, Eliza Maria, after nine years of fertility treatment...