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...incoming comets and asteroids, keeping the small inner worlds relatively safe in the shooting gallery that was the early solar system. The clear lane Jupiter created became a sort of orbital sweet spot, where temperatures could remain moderate and volatile substances such as water could persist, giving life a chance to arise. While plenty of stars beyond 55 Cancri and our sun may have their own Jupiter-size planets, their orbits often carry them through this habitable zone, preventing small Earth-size worlds from gaining a toehold. "An Earth-like planet can't get established when a Jupiter-size wrecking...
...Thisbe Nissen has heard all of the jokes. Friends persist in calling her new book "How to Cook Your Ex-Boyfriend." That's okay: Thisbe and her co-author Erin Ergenbright are having a great old time crisscrossing the country in a fabulous authors' tour for "The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook: They Came, They Cooked, They Left...But We Ended up with Some Great Recipes (HarperCollins). Just two single 30-year-old women on the loose...
...schedules and dietary demands. But the largest changes in food services have come in the form of gleaming and spacious new serveries for an increasing number of Houses: Eliot, Kirkland, Winthrop and Lowell, and after this summer, all three Quad Houses. Complaints about the menu rotation persist, but there is no doubt that many undergraduates have benefited from a more aesthetically pleasing dining experience...
...meet for a debriefing--called a "hot wash" because the facts are still so fresh--to share information and discuss lessons learned. Perhaps the most important knowledge so far came during the U.S. operation in Tora Bora last December, when Afghan allies proved ineffective as a fighting force. Rumors persist that Afghan soldiers allowed Osama bin Laden to slip away into Pakistan, a claim that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld denied again last week. Whether bin Laden escaped over the snow-capped mountains or not, U.S. forces now know that while "air power can do a lot, nothing beats soldiers...
...verge of a chicken-pox epidemic, but the longer the shortages persist, the greater the risk. "All you need is one case to get you into trouble," says Dr. James McCord of the Children's Hospitals and Clinics in St. Paul/Minneapolis, Minn. McCord and other pediatricians expect they'll be able to start catching up when more vaccine becomes available later this summer. But that means keeping track of lots of kids who have fallen behind in their immunization schedules. For many parents it also means taking yet another day off from work to make sure their children get their...