Word: soiled
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...surface of Mars. If the deer wander back this week, they could see more of the same, that is if Spirit--which has been operating splendidly but has not yet budged from the safety of its landing platform--at last rolls cautiously down onto the red Martian soil, preparing for three months of rambling the alien terrain...
Perhaps the most interesting spot on the surface is one the spacecraft created. As the bubble-wrapped craft bounced to a landing, it scuffed the ground at a point just south of where the rover now rests. The loose red soil it cleared away has revealed a dark patch of what resembles mud--though that's impossible on the entirely waterless floor of Gusev...
...some 500 U.S. military installations in Europe, for example, some 20% are not "terribly useful" and may be shut down, America's top commander in Europe, General James Jones, told reporters last year. Some troops may be redeployed to the U.S., where pressure to keep bases open on home soil is mounting in an election year. Others, particularly those associated with airbases, will be left in place. German officials meeting with their U.S. counterparts were relieved last month to learn that the Ramstein base in the town of Kaiserslautern ("K-Town" to G.I.s), the largest U.S. military community outside...
Jose Padilla may not know it yet, but his case could be a watershed in the battle between civil libertarians and the Administration over antiterrorism policies. Padilla, a U.S. citizen arrested on U.S. soil and accused of plotting to detonate a radioactive dirty bomb, has been held incommunicado as an "enemy combatant" in a Navy brig in South Carolina for 19 months and has been denied access to a lawyer or relatives. An appellate panel in New York ruled, 2 to 1, that the President has no authority to hold him as an enemy combatant indefinitely and without counsel...
Bush's Thanksgiving Day swoop into Baghdad will inevitably tie his fate more closely to the volatile situation in Iraq. Having stood on Iraqi soil and committed the U.S. to seeing its mission through, the President will have little room to maneuver during the election campaign if he's faced with increasing calls to bring the troops home. If the American death toll slows, Saddam Hussein is found and democracy begins to take root, Bush won't need a campaign ad to make his point. But if Iraq gets worse instead of better, neither will his opponents...