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...important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species." STEPHEN HAWKING, astrophysicist, warning that life on Earth could soon be wiped out by global warming or nuclear...
...Horowitz's side: they'd rather raze the farm and build a warehouse. "We don't need some dingdong like Daryl Hannah going on TV and saying people need fresh air," says city councilwoman Jan Perry. "They also need jobs." An urban planner, Perry points out, would spread the community gardening money around the whole city instead of jamming it all into one area. Plus, Perry is intently focused on getting a soccer field out of all of this, which Horowitz conceded...
...book-review essay in March, weighing the question of whether U.S. officials had been guilty of war crimes. Ellsberg told friends that he admired Sheehan's analysis. A short time after the essay appeared, Sheehan ... was in New York City carrying a sample of the 47-volume report. He spread the papers on the desk of Times Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal, whose eyes widened. 'The decision to publish,' said Rosenthal, 'was made almost the moment it came into our hands.' Rosenthal dispatched Assistant Foreign Editor Gerald Gold to Washington, where he set up headquarters with Sheehan ... They were joined...
...diabolical symbiosis with a bacterium, Pseudomonas fluorescens, which was degrading the fungicide. So the restorers added antibiotics to the mix in which they soaked bandages to plaster the lower walls of the cave. Tons of quicklime, which kills fungus but also temporarily raised the cave's ambient temperature, was spread on the floor. Since the worst of the infection has been brought under control, the team now relies on "mechanical removal"--that is, carefully plucking the filaments from the wall by hand...
That legal battle may yet be overshadowed by a bloodier confrontation at Gitmo. Word of the suicides will spread quickly through the prison. Leaders among the inmates could decide to ratchet up the pressure by launching more strikes, more fights or perhaps more suicides. Guantanamo is far from Iraq and Afghanistan, but it could become another front in the war on the war on terrorism...