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...didn’t hear my talk? Clay is the source of life on this planet. The first DNA was formed in the crystals of clay...
...jungles and lonely labs, and gather together to powwow about the state of their charges. Unfortunately, the news is not always good. Last month, the results of this biennial conversation were published in the 2006-2008 Primates in Peril report, the fourth of its kind, a compilation of the planet's 25 most endangered primate species. "If you took the remaining individuals of these species and gave them a ticket to a football stadium, they would not fill it," says Russell Mittermeier, president of Conservation International and chairman of the World Conservation Union's Primate Specialist Group. "They [number] well...
...much of a show - or hasn't since it was first discovered in 1892. A couple of weeks ago, however, this insignificant object formed a huge halo (officially known as a coma, from the Latin word for hair), which quickly swelled to the size of the planet Jupiter. And puny Holmes, a million times brighter than it had been a couple of hours before, suddenly became visible to the naked eye. And so it remains: You can see it yourself, without binoculars if you use this NASA website as a guide...
...American lifestyle is built upon overindulgence; from McMansions to SUVs we love our conspicuous consumption. That way of life is no longer sustainable. Our planet is disintegrating, and unless we begin to change our ways—and not just talk about changing them—those $10 million dollar Malibu homes will no longer exist for Hollywood’s celebrities to frolic in. America has plenty of these phony Hollywood enviro-celebswhat it needs now is someone who actually practices what he preaches...
...wanting more than anything to win a World Series. But few would deny that the high-spending Yanks, who were prepared to offer him a $230 million, eight-year deal, give A-Rod a better chance of winning a World Series, every year, than any other franchise on the planet...