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...Humans have been looking for other planets ever since astronomers first turned telescopes to the sky. But once we got beyond the nine worlds orbiting our own sun - eight actually, now that Pluto's been busted down to planetoid - we had no luck. The problem is, stars are huge, and by comparison, even big planets are tiny. Squint all you want; you're not going to see them. (See pictures of Earth from space...
There's a strong north wind blowing out of a cloudless sky down Crawford's main street, pulling at the Texan and American flags in front of the Red Bull souvenir shop. The only sound on this placid afternoon is the tinkling of wind chimes. It wasn't always so quiet in this tiny rural community of 730 in central Texas where former President George W. Bush has maintained a ranch since 1999. Four years ago, there were some who wondered if the noise would ever stop. The President's five-week summer vacation at his ranch brought the turmoil...
...record straight, it was the Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" that gave birth to the hominid's name, correct? Yes, the whole camp was listening to Beatles' tape because I was a great Beatles fan, and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was playing and this girl said, well if you think the fossil was a female, why don't you name her Lucy? Initially I was opposed to giving her a cute little name, but that name stuck. (See pictures of the Beatles' final performance together...
Unless, that is, your industry of choice is holding talks called, "Fallen Sky." Today, the Shorenstein Center at the Kennedy School hosted New York Times media columnist David Carr, a man who knows a thing or two about rock bottom, to discuss the future of the journalism industry in the middle of the financial free fall...
...know, big chunks of the sky have begun to fall," Carr said, ticking off a national map of newspaper despair: Seattle, Denver, Detroit, Minneapolis, Philadelphia...