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...future in which a summer house on Mars is perfectly affordable to the lower middle class, ordinary travelers take sightseeing tours of the moons of Jupiter and starships sail majestically through the soundless void. But in this U.S. election season, science has been completely bypassed. Tanjim Hossain Orlando, Florida, U.S. The ability to vote freely is under attack. Registration forms have been torn up and discarded, minorities and college students have been intimidated, and registrations have been disallowed for the slightest imperfection. Am I alone in feeling outraged, appalled, terrified? The right to vote is the very core of democracy...
...that there is a scheme of things," says Davies of Macquarie University, "that the universe is not just any ragbag of laws." In the end, genes may prove to be a part of that scheme--but clearly one of very many. --With reporting by Jeff Chu/ London, Broward Liston/ Orlando, Maggie Sieger/ Chicago and Daniel Williams/ Sydney...
...Craigslist has become one of the Web's Top 20 portals, with 5.3 million visitors a month to its job and real estate listings, for-sale postings and personals? How has it grown exponentially from a narrow base in San Francisco and New York City to 45 cities, from Orlando, Fla., to St. Louis, Mo., to Fresno, Calif.? How has it managed to spread its wings abroad in Canada and Britain, with Australia next on its horizon? How has it managed to do all that--when other, more capitalized businesses have withered away...
...this skeptical light, Kingdom of Heaven can be seen as a recipe of familiar faces and tropes. Hire Ridley Scott to direct a burly period epic that pits an obscure hero against historical figures (think Gladiator, then substitute the Holy Roman Empire for the plain old Roman one). Cast Orlando Bloom as a young smithy who boldly challenges the nobility and Liam Neeson as the rebel hero's stalwart father figure (as he was for Leonardo DiCaprio in Gangs of New York). Add Jeremy Irons for tone and Eva Green (The Dreamers) for the mandatory romance. Stir...
...parcel service, was recently forced to shift some shipments to trucks. Dow Chemical, which supplies, among other things, chlorine for water utilities, suspended operations at a Michigan plant until the distribution logjam clears. Passenger trains are affected too. Amtrak's Sunset Limited, which makes a thrice-weekly run from Orlando, Fla., to Los Angeles, has yet to arrive on time this year, rolling in as much as 40 hours late. Amtrak had to fly one near mutinous trainload of passengers to their destination when the Limited fell behind, leaving customers and Amtrak fuming. "There are other freight tracks we operate...