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...four-person dissent, Scalia's concurrence was signed by him alone. The Democrats are already talking about peeling away a moderate member of the conservative bloc--Kennedy or possibly O'Connor. Until a ruling comes down, those two Justices will be two of the most powerful people on the planet...
...overall place in presidential history, is muddled. It can be argued that he has done more for nature than any other President since Theodore Roosevelt, but he has also missed opportunities that may never present themselves again, given the irreversibility of much of the damage being done to the planet. "Clinton fell short by the needs of this century, but by the standards of the past century, he did rather well," says Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club...
...NASA has come up with the most striking evidence yet. The Mars Global Surveyor, which has been orbiting the Red Planet since 1997, has returned an album of images that show in brilliant detail outcroppings of layered rock, some more than two miles deep, that appear to be the remains of lake beds dating back more than 3.5 billion years. Why should lakes be important on a planet that we already knew had rivers and seas? Because the newly discovered formations precisely resemble the sedimentary depressions that have yielded some of Earth's richest fossil lodes. If life once thrived...
...Hybrids allow people to feel they are doing the right thing for the planet," says Michael Feinstein, a Santa Monica councilman who just bought a Prius for his mother. That's nice, but the breakthrough is that Americans finally have green cars that are convenient enough and cool enough to drive...
...extremely bright star flying west to east--will be shortly after dusk. Knowing which days it will be visible is trickier. Since Earth takes 24 hr. to complete a rotation and the station--which orbits at a 51.6[degree] inclination--takes only a zippy 92 min. to circle the planet, it will pass over a different part of the U.S. every time it flies by. To find out when it's coming to your corner of the continent, check out spaceflight.NASA.gov It's never easy to know that billions of your tax dollars are being spent, but at least this...