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...after finding love? The reasons stated in your article "First Comes Love, Then Comes Obesity?" laid out a few valid points but not the crucial one [July 20]. When a woman has got her man she folds away her advertising flags and takes down the billboards. Like any precious object that has been snapped up, she is no longer on the market and any further allure would only complicate matters. If only our buyers would appreciate this and not start looking around at other billboards when they realize that theirs no longer has any frills. After all, we really...
...Jupiter Cosmic Crash While peering through his backyard telescope, Anthony Wesley, a 44-year-old amateur astronomer, spied a massive black spot on Jupiter's surface. The Australian quickly e-mailed NASA, and scientists manning an infrared telescope in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, confirmed his hunch: a fast-moving object--possibly a comet--had apparently smashed into the solar system's largest planet, leaving a nearly Earth-size "scar" in its atmosphere. The collision came almost exactly 15 years after a comet last hit Jupiter...
...detective dramas, a dog's powerful sense of smell has become a predictable crime solver: the trusty canine takes a sniff of a suspect object and follows the scent, eventually arriving at the perpetrator of the evil deed. But in real life, is this reliable evidence - or is it junk science that has helped put away innocent people...
Trout, Robert • closing arguments of in bribery trial of former Rep. William Jefferson suggest that client of has been punished enough by losing his seat and becoming "the object of a national joke about money in the freezer," and besides, everyone in Congress is corrupt so isn't it a little unfair to single out this one guy just because his illegal demands for money were caught on tape...
...their part, pro-life activists are likely to look at the list of Ryan-DeLauro supporters and see no marquee names from their movement, despite the fact that a variety of conservative pro-life religious leaders have endorsed the initiative. They could also object to the legislation's cost - which has not yet been estimated - but it may be difficult for them to argue that the price of reducing abortions is too high...