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...Meanwhile, Mars is in its biannual "opposition" to the earth, when it is lined up opposite the Sun, with Earth in between. This year, the Red Planet is a mere 42 million miles from Earth, the closest since 1988. For the next two weeks, it will glow orange-gold, brighter than anything in the night sky except the moon...
...publications, from the "quality-lit" (Southern's phrase) mag "the Paris Review" to "Puritan" (the adult publication that was so explicit it was sold shrink-wrapped). Both books fill a significant void, offering evidence that Southern remained a potent, wildly creative scribe during his last 25 years on this planet. His skill in career-planning never matched his consummate wit and imagination (in fact he was a dismal dealmaker), but at least now his "invisible" years have yielded a number of characteristically strange and amusing stories, articles, and anecdotes...
...NOTHING TO SNEEZE AT Dust did in the dinos and suffocated the Pompeiians; today its industrial version can kill. But without it? No earth. The planet, the author writes, is melted dust...
...while Bush failed to convince the Europeans, the fact remains that he sets their agenda. Because he can, by virtue of America's gargantuan military power that literally dwarfs that of its combined allies or foes, and by virtue of its status as the premier polluter of the planet's atmosphere. The Europeans may not like his position on missile defense or Kyoto, but by stating both as a fait accompli he has forced them to respond...
...AS5300 access server with a recommended retail price of $50,000 was auctioned off for less than $2,500. Even busier these days is Virtual Chip Exchange, a private marketplace for 4,200 established buyers and sellers of computer chips and semiconductors in 40 countries. VCE is currently the planet's largest electronics B2B exchange, as rated by Jupiter Media Metrix. The privately held company reports that revenues rose past $37 million in the first quarter, up 238% from the same period last year, while profits are in "the high six figures...