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...face one more hot-stone massage? No desire for another body wrap? For anyone suffering from spa fatigue (and that could be many of us, given that every corner of the planet seems to boast a Thai-style treatment pavilion or Ayurvedic retreat), Kyrgyzstan's Lake Issyk-Kul should come as an intriguing discovery. Or perhaps that should be "rediscovery," since travelers on the Silk Road knew of the lake's therapeutic value for centuries. Soviet apparatchiks were also fond of it, holidaying in one of the 40 workers' sanatoria built by the communist state around the lake...
...discussing his work as a translator, he smilingly states that “a translator has to have a small ego. The pleasure comes from the crucial decisions that go from one sentence to the next. The smaller the egos we have, the better the future of the planet.” As he goes on to compare illustrations of islands in atlases of the 1500s to the sonnets of John Donne, it becomes clear that Conley’s remarkable creative and analytic talent lies in his ability to illuminate the forms he studies in a rich and challenging...
...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...