SPECTACULAR ERUPTION ON THE SUN
April 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment
There has been a spectacular eruption from the Sun’s surface. It occurred at 1319 GMT on Monday and was imaged by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, which sits in space at a gravitational balance point between our star and Earth. The giant prominence at the bottom left of the image is more than 30 times [...]
Sunnis and Shia, Praying Together
February 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Last night was a sleepless one for me. It rolled on until around 4 in the morning and though exhausted I couldn’t sleep. I’ve come to actually like these times because at this hour 99% of Baghdad’s private generators are shut down and the city becomes, for a brief period, enjoyably silent. It was dark [...]
Bush’s Latest Lunacy
December 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment
NASA announced plans on Monday for a permanent base on the Moon, to be started soon after astronauts return there around 2020. The agency’s deputy administrator, Shana Dale, said the United States would develop rockets and spacecraft to get people to the Moon and establish a rudimentary base. There, other countries and commercial enterprises could [...]
Farewell Fidel?
November 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Fighter jets soared over anti-aircraft missiles as Cuba rehearsed for its first military parade in a decade to mark Fidel Castro’s 80th birthday, amid expectation that he may appear in the flesh. Four months have passed since Castro underwent intestinal surgery and then relinquished power temporarily to his brother and defense minister, Raul Castro. Cuba [...]
Ethical Stem Cells?
August 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Find a way to make stem cells without destroying an embryo and you might resolve one of the nation’s fiercest public debates. A biotech company seems to have done it. But early signs are the scientific achievement is not the slam-dunk solution the company had hoped. Stem cell opponents said Wednesday that the new method [...]
Dark Humor in the Military
June 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment
We’ve been watching this develop, as earlier today the Council on American Islamic Relations sent out one of their infamous email alerts about an amateur music video of a song about a Marine lured into an ambush by a “Hadji girl.” At this point there’s no verification that the singer is a Marine, although it [...]
Battle of Midway
June 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment
The Battle of Midway, fought near the Central Pacific island of Midway, is considered the decisive battle of the war in the Pacific. Before this battle the Japanese were on the offensive, capturing territory throughout Asia and the Pacific. By their attack, the Japanese had planned to capture Midway to use as an advance base, [...]
Handing Off a War, Dispatches From Iraq
May 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment
BAGHDAD, Iraq—First Lt. Yarub Altawee, 26, wandered in and out of the stores along bustling Palestine Street, the upscale shopping area in east Baghdad, asking, “How’s business?” In the late afternoon, the street was jammed with cars and people, many of the women dressed in chic, Western-style clothes. The small stalls displayed brightly colored goods [...]
Let Them Eat Steak
April 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment
The steaks are great, of course. But it isn’t the T-bones, the porterhouses or the rib-eyes that will be sorely, even painfully, missed when Fran O’Brien’s Stadium Steakhouse loses its lease and closes its doors this month. The downtown D.C. restaurant, which has hosted a decade’s worth of power lunches, political dinners and salacious hookups, [...]
Rosa Parks Takes Her Seat…
October 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment
When Rosa Parks refused to get up, an entire race of people began to stand up for their rights as human beings. It was a simple act that took extraordinary courage in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955. It was a place where black people had no rights white people had to respect. It was a time [...]
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