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...have been finding planets around distant stars for more than a decade now, and the count is currently around 400. But the vast majority of these so-called exoplanets have been seen indirectly - by their gravitational effects or by the dimming caused when they pass in front of their parent stars. To really understand what a planet is like in detail, you have to see it directly, and that's incredibly hard to do with today's technology. (See pictures of the launch of NASA's Ares rocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomers Spy a New Planet-Like Object | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

Much of what Gibbs is talking about is bull, plain and simple. A parent can't be too careful. This is not the '50s, when you could leave your door open at night to help cool the house. Sad, but true nonetheless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

...other big events, the church hires off-duty police officers. There have been no car thefts and only one burglary in the church's new security era. Berean also uses a check-in system for its nursery and Sunday schools that once averted an attempted kidnapping by an estranged parent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Churches, Beefed-Up Security Is a Mixed Blessing | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

Raymond Traietti, a parent of a student attending Cambridge Public School, wrote in an e-mail to a school official that he was “frustrated” with the school assignment process...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: School Assigning Process Criticized | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

...secretive. Only a few tour operators openly promote divorce tourism, which is also an oddly surreptitious affair. Typically, a bickering couple is given an exotic paid-for holiday - destinations for the $1,500 to $2,500 packages are the Maldives, Spain and the Czech Republic - by a concerned parent or friend. Before leaving, the couple meets with the tour operator and his staff to settle the itinerary, unaware that one of the staff members is a counselor - who subsequently shadows them on their trip, assisting with travel details while discreetly soothing ruffled feathers and offering marital advice when needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Indian Travel Fad: "Divorce Tourism" | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

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