Friday, May 7, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Friday, May 7, 2010)
(1)- MARTIAN CAVES -- An analysis of Martian geography suggests where to look for habitable caves. Research suggests two regions contain volcanic features which may be suitable and a ready supply of water, in the form of ice.

(2)- NEIL SIMON -- There have been comic playwrights who were more daring, more witty, more rebarbative, and more timely, but none in theater’s long and raucous history has so dominated Broadway as the softly astringent Neil Simon.

(3)- WEIRD DARWIN ATTACK -- Evolution is weird - far weirder than Darwin ever imagined. But does that mean that Darwinism itself should go the way of the dinosaur and the dodo?

(4)- DEBT UPON DEBT -- The national debt -- which totaled $8,370,635,856,604.98 recently, not even counting trillions owed to Social Security and other pilfered trust funds -- is rapidly becoming a dominant political issue.

(5)- INDIA’S MILITARY PAST & FUTURE -- In its effort to build a partnership with India, ongoing since the mid-1990s, France has helped India renegotiate its position in the global nuclear order: It provided diplomatic cover.

(6)- HE HAD HELP – There is the view that Einstein’s first wife, Mileva, made substantial contributions to his early scientific achievements, and that the failure to give her work due recognition exemplifies prejudice.

(7)- HELP WANTED -- Al-Qaeda in Iraq is struggling to recruit volunteers for suicide bombings and other attacks, the US Army said yesterday, hours after the jihadist network confirmed the deaths of its top commanders.

(8)- NARRATIVE RECAPTURE -- In politics, it now seems, narrative can lose value faster than a new car. So one is grateful to be brought back to the gleaming 2008 Obama model in the second year of the Obama presidency.

(9)- PIRATE NEWS -- Despite the vigil of many of the world's powerful navies, it's clear that the Somalia pirates' reach seems to be widening, with new successful attacks closer to the Indian Ocean's Maldives and the Seychelles than Somalia.

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