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Top 10 (or so) signs that virtue is growing ever more chic: actor Charlie Sheen, who ran up a $50,000 tab with the Heidi Fleiss escort service, has declared himself a born-again Christian. ("There's such a thing as having too much fun," he concluded after years of...
The expanding gender gap, which in some surveys situates women as much as 20 percentage points to the left of men, is being treated by both parties these days like some mysterious female disorder. Republicans are fretting over that ancient Freudian riddle--What do women want?--while aiming programs at...
Although a truly primordial comet would tell them more about the original chemistry of the solar system, astronomers are still thrilled to see any comet this close. "We can't exactly reach out and touch them," says Green. "We have to wait for them to come to us."
Breaking Through the Algae To human eyes, the world on the eve of the Cambrian explosion would have seemed an exceedingly hostile place. Tectonic forces unleashed huge earthquakes that broke continental land masses apart, then slammed them back together. Mountains the size of the Himalayas shot skyward, hurling avalanches of...
Without oxygen to aerate tissues and make vital structural components like collagen, notes Knoll, animals simply cannot grow large. But for most of earth's history, the production of oxygen through photosynthesis - the metabolic alchemy that allowed primordial algae to turn carbon dioxide, water and sunlight into energy - was almost...