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...TIME.com: Have any of the initial discoveries been surprising? Kluger: The biggest surprise so far is the dark patch of dirt that was dragged by Spirit's airbags during landing. It resembles mud, but it can't be mud, because of the absence of water, and therein lies the mystery. Mars may have at one time held water, and one place it might be found is the Gusev Crater, an area about the size of Connecticut that was Spirit's landing spot. The crater may have once been a lake, and scientists feel that spot gives us the best chance...
...prevent that, the U.S. needs to defeat the insurgents, a job that first requires figuring out who they are. U.S. intelligence experts are struggling to patch together a working profile from tidbits gleaned from captives, scraps of information of varying reliability and facts collected after attacks. They now believe the insurgents are a volatile mix of groups and free-lancers who include loyalists of the former ruling Baath Party, Fedayeen militiamen, former Republican Guard and intelligence agents, foreign jihadis, professional terrorists, paid common criminals and disaffected Iraqis. Men, in fact, like the well-educated, English-speaking fellow who appears...
...near that same strip of highway, Cable called the police. They matched the fragment in his van to the bullet that killed her. Authorities in Ohio last week said 14 recent shootings in the area were linked, five of them through ballistic evidence. All were clustered in a sevenmile patch of Interstate 270, a semirural community of cornfields and strip malls. The first, in May, hit a car that had been left without gas on the shoulder. The next, in August, hit a trailer towing a horse. In October and November, the frequency accelerated. Since Oct. 10, three tractor-trailers...
...wondered what I could eat that hadn’t been brutally murdered by our selfish human society. Curried potatoes? Anyone who’s seen Toy Story knows that potatoes walk, talk and even dance like the rest of us (they even have lovable, detachable faces!) Lettuce? Cabbage Patch Kids. Peanut butter cookies? The Planters Peanut man. Whether or not the story concerning the final club is true, I think the Harvard community has a much larger problem on its hands. Why worry about the capture of a chicken that was going to be slaughtered anyway, when animal cruelty...
...sophisticated battle to stop the use of nonhuman primates, dogs, cats, rabbits, rodents and other creatures in scientific and medical research. Without the new lab, its proponents say, the university's world-class neuroscientists will have difficulty staying on the cutting edge of research. But activists fear that this patch of English countryside will soon become the vivisection capital of Europe. Their argument - that experimentation on animals is cruel, unethical, irrelevant and unnecessary - is certainly debatable, but it is undeniably part of an animal-rights campaign that's gaining strength around Europe. Britain, the birthplace of the antivivisection movement...