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… Congress in Adelaide, Australia. Musk spoke about his company's plans for interplanetary travel and his belief in … as a multi-planet species . His proposed first stop: Mars—sooner and cheaper than might be expected. In front of the … image of the Mars Pathfinder mission taken from its landing site in 1997 ( bottom ).  U.S. federal plans for planetary …

… them and Euro-Americans saying “Indian polities used commercial and military leverage to shape these … gift diplomacy to sway Native peoples towards or against one side during periods of conflict. Likewise, Indians used … or unwilling to participate in the arms race were the first ones to be overpowered by their rivals or by Euro-American …

… demonstrated, not for the first time, that Attlee’s opponents had greatly underestimated him. Out of the … – the Labour Party emerged from the 1945 election with a commanding majority in the House of Commons – Attlee achieved what no other Labour leader had done before. For the first time in history, the United …

… in 2003. Mars, the red planet so close to Earth, has become a tantalizing target for humans to visit. Noted space … today, we mostly hear about two rovers that trawl small zones of the planet: the Opportunity rover that exceeded a … below. Strange features were popping up above the dust in one area. When the dust began to recede, to scientists' …

… Places, backyards, and basements filled with televisions, computers, and Playstations. Riney-Kehrberg describes how … growing up in the Midwest and Great Plains. Chapter One describes how rural children lived “premodern” lives … of newspapers, periodicals, television programs, films, websites, and published works to tell her story, but she also …

… shot and killed the archduke and heir to the Austrian throne, Franz Ferdinand, and his wife, Sophie, at point-blank … of the Marne. Both sides then dug in along what would become the great Western Front, a series of trenches extending … four years of slaughter unprecedented in human history. No one in the emotional days surrounding the initial terrorist …

… a test of how well the United States, and the international community could create institutions of governance after the … crimes tribunals were created: for Rwanda (1994), Sierra Leone (2002), and Cambodia (2003). While the specific … to Hell" describes his travels through atrocity zones around the world and his meeting with the victims of …

… 1946-1948, around 1,500 people in Guatemala—including prisoners, soldiers, prostitutes, psychiatric patients, and … and the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (which would later become the Pan American Health Organization) financed and … were unable artificially to provoke infection in the prisoners. Backed by the U.S. government’s need to control VD in …

… inventing new “nukes” and new ways to deliver them. He felt compelled to build almost all of them, lest the Russians get … plan, and his summit meetings with Khrushchev all had one goal in mind: to convince the allies that the … against the Europeans. Will our laser-ray satellites one day be competing against the Europeans, too? An Ike-like …

… discovered since the mid-1960s (four of which just cause a common cold in humans). A microscopic image of SARS-CoV It … 3. Such a high R0 gave SARS the potential to grow exponentially. However, its slow incubation period and lagging … it a sense of shock—both to the public and to public health officials. On May 5, TIME Magazine released a cover story, …

… The early version was small (around 30 clerics) and comprised only of “cardinal priests” who served parishes … died somewhere far from Rome, probably never having even visited.   Nevertheless, Christians in Rome from the third … pope and “anti-pope” pair.  As we all know, not everyone accepts the outcome of an election, including the popes. …

… investigating reports of UFOs. To this end it instituted a comprehensive study of UFOs.  This study, known as Project … it found that UFO sightings stemmed from “one or more of three causes”: mass hysteria, hoax, or … “misinterpretation of known objects.”  Nevertheless, it recommended continued investigation of all sightings.  Project …

… take care of everything. This economic formula was fashioned most thoroughly by economist Milton Friedman in the … They have imagined that era as a golden age of free-market competition and laissez-faire government.  Many of these … guards, federal troops.  They got it. Far from "leaving alone," government intervened in the economy during the late …

… as the case might be. If we really want to engage the community with historical thinking, a better model might be … television channels to hundreds, as well as thousands of websites and blogs, means that it may be a mistake to refer to … public, rather than a series of “publics,” plural. Thus one may be a public intellectual in one community, but …

… to expand NATO is based on an outdated crusade against communism, a crusade launched against the Soviet Union in … even handling the tiny Baltic state of Lithuania, let alone dominating the Great Power club. In 1945, that club … NATO. Politicians and diplomats may make bad treaties, and one day the authors of expansionist military plans may have …

… of personal virtue, but not a sufficient basis for a sound comprehensive energy policy,” he turned his back on a major … as to be inexhaustible.  Conservationists deflated what one historian has called “the myth of superabundance” and … grapple with the enduring issue of how we live on the land. One hopes that the Bush administration will yet be convinced …