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...today's alignment of stars hardly means things will move quickly. It will take weeks, and more likely months, for the White House and Congress to sift through the commission's findings and get to the same place. Congress will push for the full range of the group's proposals - starting up a regional security group; a restart of the Middle East peace talks; some basket of carrots and sticks on Baghdad. And the White House will have its own internal fight between those who want to get on board this train and the "we-get-to-decide-these-things...
...today's alignment of stars hardly means things will move quickly. It will take weeks, and more likely months, for the White House and Congress to sift through the commission's findings and get to the same place. Congress will push for the full range of the group's proposals: starting up a regional security group; a restart of the Middle East peace talks; some basket of carrots and sticks on Baghdad. And the White House will have its own internal fight between those who want to get on board this train and the "we-get-to-decide-these-things...
...alien civilizations. Loeb, whose main area of research focuses on mapping the age of the universe, said he could use radio wave observatories currently being built in Australia to detect radio waves from space. The finely tuned observatories, which consist of thousands of radio towers, are carefully arranged to sift out radio waves from television, radio, and military broadcasters on Earth, giving them the unprecedented capability to search for these common radio wave types lightyears away without any interference. Loeb explained that the “Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” program, commonly known as SETI, has done similar...
...researchers have likened the approach to an Internet search engine like Google, which is able to sift through masses of data to find the best match between the attributes of a drug and the symptoms of a disease...
...just got into Harvard, you’re not sure what the hell you plan to do here, much less in life, and you’ve just been given a 10-pound Courses of Instruction to sift through. What the hell do you do? Well, the mature, intelligent thing to do would be to knock off some of those core requirements while you get your bearings. But mature, intelligent decision are for the weak! Be daring, impulsive, self-indulgent. Take something you don’t particularly need, but will probably be interesting as hell. Your Destination: Psych...