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Discovery: roadside trash on Mars?

For future archaeologists, the American roadside will produce a wealth of material to study. Indeed, it already produces a wealth of material that state highway departments, augmented by minor criminals doing community service, work hard to remove.

2012-10-11 17:13

A new debate game plan for a new comeback kid

The morning after the night of the first presidential debate, loyal Democrats awoke (if indeed they slept at all) to find in their inboxes an email with a subject line that had the too-familiar look of spam.

2012-10-11 17:11

King Ludd is still dead

CAMBRIDGE ― Since the dawn of the industrial age, a recurrent fear has been that technological change will spawn mass unemployment. Neoclassical economists predicted that this would not happen, because people would find other jobs, albeit possibly after a long period of painful adjustment. By and large, that prediction has proven to be correct.

2012-10-11 17:03

Sandusky ― an old, familiar story

Perhaps the saddest aspect to the Jerry Sandusky child-molestation case is that it's an old and familiar story. A respected member of the community takes an interest in a (usually poor) youngster, often to the delight of the child's family, and offers the boy ― they are almost always boys ― outings, opportunities and flattering attention.

2012-10-10 17:10

Big Bird flutters onto political stage

Once Mitt Romney brushes the yellow feathers off his sharply tailored suit, the GOP presidential candidate may regret ever having tangled with Big Bird, increasingly looking like the signature moment of last week's presidential debate.

2012-10-10 17:09

By many measures, US economy still sinks

NEW YORK ― Slip slidin' away ...

2012-10-10 17:07

Nukes in the cupboard

The major powers have all had their nuclear weapons on permanent alert, ready to launch in minutes or hours, for the past 40 years. Changes in the level of political risk, even the end of the Cold War, have had little or no effect on that. But wouldn’t it be safer and cheaper to “simply put (the nuclear deterrent) away in a cupboard and keep it as a contingency in case there ...

2012-10-10 17:03

Chavez’s new term haunted by bad health

Hugo Chavez has won his third presidential election in Venezuela, thanks to his customary generous spending on the poor in advance of the vote. Even though he won by a 10 percent margin, it is less than the anti-U.S. strongman is accustomed to receiving. He won by 27 percentage points six years ago.

2012-10-09 17:24

Why Obama bubble still hasn't burst

Can there be political bubbles like financial bubbles?

2012-10-09 17:20

Adoptee justice is about social justice

Thirty years ago I was born in the middle of one of the most significant developmental projects the world has ever seen: The transformation of South Korea from a poor agricultural society devastated by war to one of the wealthiest economies. In my family money and food were scarce. Due to economic hardships I was temporarily placed in an orphanage.

2012-10-09 17:08

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