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...things are not going right. It isn't the weather, which is what usually trips up stargazers. Here at Keck headquarters in the sleepy town of Waimea, nestled in the midst of cattle-ranching country on Hawaii's Big Island, thick clouds are scudding past, occasionally dipping low enough to send a driving mist across the grassy hills. But the telescopes are some 25 miles away and more than two miles up, in the thin, frigid air at the summit of the extinct volcano Mauna Kea. At an altitude of nearly 14,000 ft., the observatory sits well above...
...reaches into a lockbox and pulls out $12,000 in U.S. $100 bills. He presses the money into Hodroj's palm. It's meant to pay for a year's rent and furniture while Hizballah builds him a new home. Hodroj doesn't bother to count the inch-thick wad of cash, equal to more than twice the average Lebanese annual income. Score one for the militants. "We're with Hizballah all the way," Hodroj says, stuffing the cash into his pockets...
...where as Thorne points out, "There are more human evolutionists than there are fossils to go along with them." But the Flores debate seems to bring out the inner fifth-grader in grownups with PhDs. After Brown was quoted in Discover magazine this past January saying that Eckhardt was "thick as a plank" for trying to refute Homo floresiensis, Eckhardt attended a scientific meeting where he took off his shirt and had his wife measure his chest. "We were able to establish to the satisfaction of the audience of 300 people that I was in fact thicker than two short...
...drink by Christmas. Wine on tap could prove useful if any of L'Andana's future guests share our deep and gorgeous thirst. The sommelier, Yuka Maekawa, concealed any surprise at our rate of consumption but packed a few surprises of her own. Female Japanese sommeliers aren't thick on the ground in Italy; yet the biggest break from tradition was her determination to steer us away from pricey bottles to cheaper choices, all delicious. This didn't stop us from racking up three of the great Italian classics, Sassicaia, Ornellaia and Tignanello - after we joined forces with...
...much attracts attention in Mirpur, a place of cultural confusion. Multi-tiered mansions of pink marble and stucco line dirt paths; expensive cars wind through potholed streets and park in front of the British Airways office in Mirpur town center. Residents speak with thick British regional accents. "There are more mansions in Mirpur than there are in Islamabad," boasts Ashfaq Hamid, a friend of the Birmingham-based Rauf family who has come back to Haveli Beghal to build his own mansion. The 47-year-old taxi driver plans to retire here, in the town where he was born. Before that...