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...centuries, cartoons have depicted negative perspectives of religion. Cartoons have violated and attacked every basic Western viewpoint. Why then should other religious icons be spared? Muslims must realize they are living on this planet with many other people for whom free comment and opinion are important. Clearly, the Muslim community needs to cultivate a better sense of humor. Peter Blum Johannesburg...
...Among the projects on the block to pay for the $3 billion cut is the NuSTAR satellite, which would have used x-ray detection to find black holes, galactic nuclei and supernovae; the Terrestrial Planet Finder, which, as its name suggests, would hunt for Earth-like planets around other stars; and a welter of small craft known as the Explorers-discount ships designed mostly by university groups and launched in cooperation with NASA. Narrowly focused and cheap to fly, they have in the past paid big scientific dividends on very little investment...
...Worse still would be the potential loss of JPL's Mars Sample Return mission and a possible flight to Jupiter's icy moon Europa. The sample return project would be the capstone to a Mars exploration initiative that since 1996 has placed three rovers on the surface of the planet and two other ships in orbit around it, with a third orbiter set to arrive next week. Scrapping the Europa mission would be an even greater failure of imagination since the Jovian moon is widely considered the solar system's most tantalizing extraterrestrial place, with what may be a warm...
...centuries, cartoons have depicted negative perspectives of religion. Cartoons have violated and attacked every basic Western viewpoint. Why then should other religious icons be spared? Muslims must realize they are living on this planet with many other people for whom free comment and opinion are important. Clearly, the Muslim community needs to cultivate a better sense of humor. Peter Blum Johannesburg...
...usual argument put forth by global-warming skeptics for why we shouldn't rush to do anything yet is that the science behind climate change is uncertain--and in fact it is. While there's little doubt that humans are helping heat up the planet, the questions of how much, how quickly and leading to what consequences are fiendishly difficult to pin down. That's because the actual climate is still far more complicated than any existing computer model can accurately reflect, making predictions iffy at best. Some natural processes nobody has yet thought of could end up blunting...