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...whether it was worth it until the science is returned. But we do know that it's possible to get a spacecraft bigger and more sophisticated than Pathfinder there. And don't forget the old axiom that says there's no such thing as a failed experiment, because failures teach you what doesn't work...
...every turn, required to exercise exquisite judgment in extreme circumstances: Do you shoot the 8-year-old when he picks up the grenade launcher? How do you win the hearts and minds of residents in a town you've had to wrap in barbed wire? How do you teach about freedom through the bars of a cage...
...fantastically romantic notion, that thousands of young men and women could descend on a broken place and make it better, not decades from now but right away, hook up the high school Internet lab, send the Army engineers to repair the soccer field, teach the town council about Robert's Rules and all the while watch your back. They debate how much to tell their loved ones back home, who listen to each news report of victories won and lives lost with the acute attention that dread demands. They complain less about the danger than the uncertainty: they are told...
...presence here. Spray-painted in Arabic and English, it reads, DOWN USA. LONG LIVE SADDAM. YES TO MARTYRDOM FOR THE SAKE OF IRAQ. "The majority of people seem all right," Whiteside says. "But it's like racism. Some people actually, truly hate us, and they're going to teach their kids the same thing...
...product-placement show. It venerates ostentation, trades in gay stereotypes and urges men to develop personal relationships with...hair products. But we love it. An average of 2 million people watch, clockwise from left, Kyan Douglas, Ted Allen, Carson Kressley, Jai Rodriguez and Thom Filicia teach clueless heterosexuals about window treatments and Gewurztraminer. The show may do little to advance gay rights, but it is inspiring a nation full of well-dressed metrosexuals...