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...textbook rewrites will go on as fresh ships continue to take the place of old ones. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which will launch later this year, will conduct the most comprehensive surveys of the moon the U.S. has ever attempted, using cameras that can spot an object as small as a football. The mission will help scout for landing sites, as NASA is holding fast to its plans to return astronauts to the moon by 2020. LRO will also hunt for signs of water ice on the moon, as well as help study the irregular lunar gravity field, caused...
...written by the judge, Justice Hugh Bennett, contains little personal detail about her daughter, apart from McCartney's plea that the child should enjoy a normal life. "It is not healthy for a child to have security 24/7. It sets them apart from their peers and makes them an object of curiosity and, at times, ridicule," he said in his submission to the court. "Such children live in gilded cages. I do not want that for Beatrice...
...it’s distracting. Evolutionarily speaking, every time I go on stage I try to wear an outfit that exclaims “Don’t worry! Although I am attempting to make you laugh, I hope you will not cease to view me as a sex object.” Yet all the bizarre hurdles to women in comedy have an upside: Only the strong survive. There are more mediocre male comedians than mediocre female comedians. If you can make it against the assumption that women aren’t funny because of evolution, or excess compassion...
Even more bewildering about this situation is that to deny educational opportunities to these young people is paradoxical to the language of immigration-crackdown advocates. Critics of illegal immigration often claim that the reason they object to immigration from Mexico is that immigrants sap the resources of natural-born citizens—primarily, this takes the form of social welfare programs. While it is true that Proposition 300 curbs spending on immigrants, education is unique in that is helps immigrants to assimilate and become productive members of society. It seems like a rather un-American sentiment that proponents of Proposition...
...think in any case, it is good for museums to keep their own collection, because it means that things may be done with the objects that [they] might not be able to do with loans," Ebbinghaus says. "For instance, we have a conservation lab, and we can do technical research and give permission to do testing, which we would never get from a country that had an object on loan...