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...city was minimal. The clarification followed U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's announcement of the arrest in May of José Padilla, an American citizen who converted to Islam and calls himself Abdullah al-Muhajir, and his incarceration in military custody as an "enemy combatant." 55 CANCRI Homely Star Planet hunters at the University of California have found the first solar system that resembles our own. The star, 55 Cancri in the constellation of Cancer, is circled by at least two planets, one similar in size and distance from its star to our own Jupiter. AFGHANISTAN Karzai Keeps Power...
...animals, especially the small, scurrying kind, appear to feel anxiety. Humans have felt it since the days they shared the planet with saber-toothed tigers. (Notice which species is still around to tell the tale.) But we live in a particularly anxious age. The initial shock of Sept. 11 has worn off, and the fear has lifted, but millions of Americans continue to share a kind of generalized mass anxiety. A recent TIME/CNN poll found that eight months after the event, nearly two-thirds of Americans think about the terror attacks at least several times a week. And it doesn...
...preternaturally orange and individually wrapped in plastic. Traditionally, the U.S. has had little to offer turophiles besides Cheddar and Cheez Whiz. But as American tastes are becoming more worldly, U.S. cheesemakers are increasingly producing Bries, mozzarellas and blues that can hold their own on fromage platters all over the planet. Competing against entries from 19 other nations at the recent 2002 World Championship Cheese Contest, American-made cow's-milk cheeses won 49 awards, nearly one-third more prizes than in 2000. Ten years ago, there were only a handful of American specialty-cheese makers challenging Velveeta for American taste...
Harvard is the premier university on the planet. It has the most august faculty, unparalleled academic resources and the most intellectually active student body. Harvard provides its students with opportunities to be had nowhere else...
...little hope for a swift resolution. Meanwhile, the U.S., Britain and other countries told their nationals to leave India, adding to similar advice on Pakistan. MARS A Martian Odyssey, And a Sea of Ice Where did all the water on Mars go when the once warm and wet planet became cold and dry? After studying data from the orbiting Odyssey spacecraft, U.S. scientists believe it's still there, lying just below the surface as a huge sea of ice that future astronauts can tap for drinking water and as a source of hydrogen for fuel. Before human explorers head...