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...over the past few years, astronomers have realized that Pluto is just an especially big-and not even the biggest-of a giant swarm of icy bodies, known collectively as the Kuiper Belt, which orbits the Sun out beyond Neptune. If it's just one among many, it either has to be downgraded from its original status as a full-fledged planet, or at least a handful of other big Kuiper Belt objects have to be added to the list. But in any case, these lumps of ice haven't melted since the origin of the Solar System some...
Reason: Pluto, astronomers have learned, is no oddball. It's one of thousands of icy bodies in a diskshape swarm known as the Kuiper Belt that orbits the sun in the dark, frigid realm beyond Neptune. Since the discovery last summer of an object called 2003 UB313, Pluto is not even the biggest. And because those little worlds have been in deep freeze since the solar system was formed more than 4 billion years ago, they represent a frozen record of what conditions were like back then...
...winner, erstwhile wearer of a vial of Billy Bob Thornton's blood--is scheduled to speak about Sierra Leone. It's a benefit dinner for Witness, a group that has been chronicling abuses in the war-torn African country--slaughter, rape, the drafting of child soldiers. So, naturally, a swarm of cameras are there to get her take on the big issue of the day: Isn't she, like, totally excited that Brad Pitt has decided to adopt her two kids...
Last spring, President Summers stumbled onto a feminist hornets’ nest when he posited that perhaps there are fewer female scientists because of “inherent differences” between men and women. The resulting swarm not only managed to avoid considering the possibility that he may have had a point, but insisted on an even more offensive explanation. The underlying assumption was as follows: Why would a woman not become a scientist? Because she has been convinced that she is not smart enough. Why would a man not become a scientist? Because he doesn?...
...responsibility to ensure that mentally ill people received minimal assistance. But despite the surge in homelessness that followed the shift away from government oversight, nothing we’ve done since has helped to stem the tide. Would forced rehabilitation completely solve vagrancy? Sadly, no. Would it attract a swarm of lawyers? Sadly, yes. But those of us who truly believe it is our duty to help fellow citizens in need must be willing to try new approaches. Next time you give 50 cents to the man on the corner, think about where it will to be spent. Also think...