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...applicable legal requirements and procedures, to sell some artworks if necessary, but I assure you that other options will also be considered." In his letter Reinharz also said that "the museum will remain open," but as an arts study center, "more fully integrated into the university's central educational mission...
...difficult to make sure that we avoid squashing new life as we search it out - although doing so could add considerable cost to any space mission. Probes like Phoenix can be more fully sterilized before launch, and debris from any unmanned craft could eventually be recovered. The real challenge will occur if and when humans set foot on Mars or any other planet and begin establishing a more permanent presence, especially if we explore beneath the surface, out of the reach of the sterilizing solar UV radiation. When that day comes, we'll need to step carefully to make sure...
...moment I got off the plane in Salt Lake City, I already knew that I was in a strange place. Young men and women were walking around in suits with name tags, heading out to begin their two years of mission work. The driver from Salt Lake to Park City explained the whole story of the Mormons to me—from Joseph Smith to the point in the 1970s when Latter Day Saint clerics announced that miraculously the Mormon church was no longer just for white people. I soon found that the most common defense of character in Utah...
...chart, both the faith-based-initiatives office and the advisory council will fall under the purview of the Domestic Policy Council. That decision represents a significant shift from the Bush Administration, in which the religious-liaison operation was focused more on outreach than on policy generation and its stated mission was relatively simple: to expand the opportunities for faith-based and other community organizations to compete for federal funds. The faith-based discussion largely centered on the question of who provided social services, and Bush himself weighed in on the side of arguing that faith-based organizations could often provide...
...increase the deployment of U.S. troops in Afghanistan - has prompted the U.S. to turn to Russia for help. Last month, after visiting Moscow, U.S. Central Command chief General David Petraeus announced that the U.S. had reached a tentative agreement with Russia on using its territory to supply the Afghanistan mission. And Medvedev seemed keen to reaffirm that cooperation, even as Bakiyev made his announcement about the Manas base. "No one is trying to evade responsibility," Medvedev said, emphasizing that Russia and Kyrgyzstan would continue to cooperate with Western forces in Afghanistan. "But the forms of cooperation are to be agreed...