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...some of the best HBO series is dirt. Not filthy language, not nudity--actual dirt. The muck in the streets of Deadwood, Tony Soprano's soldiers exhuming an incriminating body, the Fisher family tossing shovelfuls in the grave as Six Feet Under buried its lead character Nate--all this soil embodies the network's insistence on deprettifying its subjects...
...worst of times. Yet Bryna, 55, defiantly acts as if nothing has changed, washing the dishes, tidying the living room, settling down to write end-of-year reports on her speech-therapy students. Out in their nearby hothouses, her husband Sammy, 56, is resolutely prepping the sandy soil for the next vegetable crop. But their bleak eyes, full of anger and pain and loss, tell the real story...
...Latinos are comprised of many races and nationalities, speak several languages and span the socio-economic spectrum. They can be undocumented immigrants or descendents of families that were on American soil before founding of the republic. Their diversity binds them to each other and to all other Americans. The dreams of the old and new immigrants overlap and mirror each other, offering up myriad reflections of a mutually imagined America. When Christopher Columbus set foot on the shores of the New World, he described the natives as "young...well made with fine shapes and faces...Some paint themselves with black...
...hard to get nonchalant about missions to Mars, but Americans may be doing just that. With those gritty rovers Spirit and Opportunity still making fresh tracks in the Red Planet's soil, most folks have overlooked the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), poised for launch on Friday morning from Cape Canaveral in Florida. But MRO could prove to be an unforgettable mission...
...aware of the massive technological blind spot that allows criminals and terrorists to communicate undetected on American soil. But so far, it can't figure out what to do about VOIP--short for voice over Internet protocol, the dirt-cheap phone service that lets users make calls via their cable or DSL modems. Law-enforcement snoops can't tap into conversations or identify the location of callers, even with court orders authorizing surveillance. Given that the number of Internet phone users is expected to triple this year, to 2.8 million, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week responded...