Saturn’s moon Titan may be light-years away from Earth, but the two bodies have many characteristics in common: Wind, rain, volcanoes, tectonics and other Earth-like conditions all sculpt features on Titan, but act in an environment many times colder than Antarctica. “It is really surprising how closely Titan’s surface resembles Earth’s,” said Rosaly Lopes, a planetary geologist at NASA’s Jet […]
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“Your beliefs don’t make you a better person, your behavior does.”
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“The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
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“Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.” – Doug Larson
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“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader,” John Quincy Adams
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“Even if a dream does not come true, something is always gained by dreaming.” – Makoto Nagano
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“A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.” – William Hazlitt
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Albino children in Malawi are being hunted down and killed like animals. The people believe that the bones, organs, and blood of the albinos can help in their medicine to bring them good health and wealth. On the continent of Africa, the people believe in black magic and that the lives of the 17,000 albinos is worth less than their […]
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Intrusion Forced entry into caves, mud huts, castles, log cabins, condos, has been a constant, despite best efforts of self defense, violent penetration usually resulting in looting, rape, slaughter, violation of the dwelling, yet more survive in modern times, courtesy of better law and order. Gary Beck/Ignition Point ‘Ignition Point’ is an unpublished poetry collection that looks at […]
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