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Think it's hard counting the census here on Earth? Try it when you're keeping track of the population of the sky. There are more than 70 sextillion - or 70 thousand million million million - stars in the cosmos, and that doesn't include uncountable moons and asteroids and comets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Planets Like Earth? | 6/17/2008 | See Source »

Mayor himself was the one who spotted that first exotic world, and in the years since, he and other investigators have counted about 270 more. But land in the cosmic exurbs is decidedly inhospitable. Almost all of the newly discovered planets were huge, hot and gassy, Jupiter-like bodies lying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Planets Like Earth? | 6/17/2008 | See Source »

For the next three years, I didn't pay for Internet access. Instead, I got online via the unsecured wireless networks of my neighbors. This didn't seem illegal at the time--I mean, those signals were streaming through my apartment--but it is an actual, bona fide crime. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

In 1959 Truman Capote spotted a short item in the New York Times. It described a quadruple murder in small-town Kansas: two men entered a farmhouse, shot the parents and two children and left with $40, a radio and a pair of binoculars. Capote lit out for Kansas, interviewed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder into Art | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

These days, the sight of a new tiger cub has become almost routine in the tiger-friendly central core of this roughly 515-sq.-mi. (1,334 sq km) reserve nestled in the parched hills of India's northwestern state of Rajasthan. At least 14 new cubs have been spotted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Ranthambore. | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

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