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...difficult to make sure that we avoid squashing new life as we search it out - although doing so could add considerable cost to any space mission. Probes like Phoenix can be more fully sterilized before launch, and debris from any unmanned craft could eventually be recovered. The real challenge will occur if and when humans set foot on Mars or any other planet and begin establishing a more permanent presence, especially if we explore beneath the surface, out of the reach of the sterilizing solar UV radiation. When that day comes, we'll need to step carefully to make sure...
...arrests for illegal crossings last year, compared to more than 10,000 in 2005. But P.K. Mishra, inspector general of the BSF's Assam and Meghalaya Frontier, seems to know that he has an almost impossible task. He has visited the U.S.-Mexico border fence and seen how difficult controlling illegal migration is. "Even [though] they have all the technical equipment, they can't stop it," he says...
...difficult to get an accurate picture of the economic disruption in Russia, where reliable information and open public discussion remain rare. As a result, the very word crisis is only now starting to enter the official vocabulary, and even then in a relatively muted way. Challenging the official line is still hazardous for any media outlet...
...life, but it was nice to have it officially recognized by the Sundance Film Festival. This year the festival accepted Joel Stein's Completely Unfabricated Adventures into its short-film competition--one of only 96 entries chosen out of 5,632 submissions. Getting a short into Sundance is more difficult than getting into Harvard and an even greater indication that you have rich parents...
That is the war Obama has declared the U.S. must win, a task made more difficult by recent American neglect. The Bush Administration took its eyes off Islamabad after the fall of its favored partner, army general Pervez Musharraf, and the assassination of his would-be successor, Benazir Bhutto, with whom the U.S. hoped to work closely. Since Bhutto's death, a weak elected government and a recalcitrant military have failed to check the easy movement of al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in and out of Afghanistan. That has forced the U.S. military to launch targeted missile strikes on Pakistani...