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Republican wants more Massa exposure butDemocrat says its overDavid Morg an ( Front Row Washington )Submitted at 3/10/2010 7:18:02 AM

House Republican Eric Cantorthinks Congress should get tothe bottom of Eric Massasbizarre tale of congressionalnudity, satanic White Houseadvisers, the groping of men (ornot ) and a congress iona lh e a l t h c a r e p u t s c hby Democra ts . But HouseMajority Leader Steny Hoyersays the case is over.I know that Steny joins me inhoping that the ethics committeein Congress looks into thisadequately and can get to thebottom of all of this, saidCantor, who appeared alongwith Hoyer on NBCs Todayshow. The best place for this tobe resolved is in the ethicscommittee and lets get to thebottom of it.Otherwise, the whole thing

seems to make Cantor want to

hold his nose. And he is notalone. Im a little taken aback and stunned, the Virginialawmaker confided. I dontknow the facts of this at all. Iknow that the American peopleare sickened.Massas descriptions of the

events that led him to the exitdoor have become a spectatorsport with more back-and-forth grunting than professionaltennis. And with only oneplayer.He did, or didnt, leave because

of his health. Did or didntgrope a male staffer. Did ordidnt jump ship to avoid ane t h i c s p r o b e i n t o s e x u a lharassment claims. Did have aclose encounter with a nakedRahm Emanuel. Did decide thatEmanuels a blood relative of Satan. Did get pushed fromoff ice by a Whi te Houseinfuriated over his refusal toback the Obama healthcarereform plan.

Or did he? Hoyer describesonly one chain of events leadingto Massas departure, andrelatively speaking, his accountsounds pretty realistic if only byvirtue of its plainness.Hoyers office learned of the

harassment claims on Feb. 8 andstrongly advised the young manin question to go to the ethicscommittee. In fact, Hoyer mayhave applied some pressure. Butnot the kind Massa likes to talk about.I said further: If you dontmake the complaint, I will. And

within the next 48 hours, I wastold that, in fact, they hadcontacted the ethics committee,Hoyer recalled.Within three weeks, as youknow, the congressman decidedthat the charges that werepending, or the situation thatexisted, was serious enough thathe was going to resign.

Did Democrats try to oustM a s s a ? A b s o l u t e l y n o t .P e r i o d . And what about the need for

further investigation? This wasa situation that needed to bedealt with immediately. And itwas, and action has been taken,and the member is now not inCongress.Photo Credit: Reuters/Kevin

L a m a r q u e ( H o u s e E t h i c sC o m m i t t e e r o o m ) ;Reuters/Official Handout (EricMassa)Click here for more political

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Tourists pat and kissgrey whales in SanIgnacio Lagoon, BajaCalifornia Sur, Mexico(Latest news, breaking news,current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news )

Submitted at 3/10/2010 8:24:13 AM

When the massive, barnacle-spotted head of a Pacific greywhale slid alongside PachicoMayoral's wooden boat, henervously reached out to touchit. Like other fishermen, heusually beat his boat with a stick to try to frighten the giantmammals away, but for once hehesitated. "I was curious and,very gently, I stroked the

whale 's face. And nothinghappened. It stayed calm,"Mayoral said, driving a boat of tourists across the San Ignaciolagoon some 40 years laterPicture: AFP/GETTY Five Filters featured article:Chilcot Inquiry . Available tools:PDF Newspaper , Full Text RSS ,Term Extraction .

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Karl Rove says did not ask for gay marriage fightEd Stoddard ( Front Row Washington )Submitted at 3/10/2010 8:35:39 AM

Kar l Rove , the po l i t i ca loperative widely credited withthe electoral successes of formerU.S. President George W. Bush,says in his new book that he didnot choose gay marriage as aw e d g e i s s u e b u t t h a tcircumstances thrust it his way.Conventional wisdom, at least

in some circles, has it thatR o v e m a s t e r m i n d e d g a ymarriage as an issue in the

2004 White House race in a bidto get conservative evangelicals-- a key base for the RepublicanParty, especially during theBush years -- to the polls. Therewere ballot initiatives in about a

dozen states that year to bangay marriage (or, supporters of such measures would argue,to defend traditional marriage).Many political commentatorshave said such tactics are in

keeping with the "Rovian"strategy of ginning up the baseto clinch narrow victories.

Rove , in " Courage andConsequence: My Life as aConservative in the Fight," saysthe ballot initiatives made littledifference to the outcome thatyear and that they were not hisidea anyway." Gay marriage was an uglyfight we had not asked for but

could win if we handled withcare. Done right, our response togay marriage could show it was

possible to bring a courteousand caring tone to a divisiveissue. The issue also revealedthe nuttiness of the Left, whichnever saw how pers i s ten tAmerica's traditionalism reallywas. Instead, the Left seemedconvinced that Bush and Ie n g i n e e r e d t h e i s s u e ' semergence to dr ive Bushpartisans to the polls. But, of course, it was a liberal supremecourt that brought the issue tothe fore," he writes.

H e w a s r e f e r r i n g t o aNovember 2003, MassachusettsSupreme Judicial Court decisionthat legalized gay marriage inthat state. Rove said thatdevelopment sparked the ballotinitiatives and he maintains theirimpact in the election battleagainst Democrat John Kerryhas been greatly exaggerated.What did matter in his view wasthat state court decision." In the end, whether a state hada marriage ballot measure didn't

affect Bush's share of the vote:he increased his portion of thevote between 2000 and 2004 byan average of 2.7 points in thestates without referenda and byan average of 2.5 points in theeleven states with defense-of-marriage initiatives on theNovember ballot, a statisticallyinsignificant difference ... Butthe Massachusetts SupremeJudicial Court decision did

affect the 2004 election bym o t i v a t i n g c u l t u r a l l yconservative Democrats and

i n d e p e n d e n t s w h o m i g h to t h e r w i s e h a v e v o t e dDemocratic to abandon Kerryover his wobbly views onmarriage."Bush of course opposed same-

sex marriage and called for af e d e r a l c o n s t i t u t io n a lamendment to bar it, thoughRove also notes that the formerpresident supported same-sex

partner rights such as hospitalvisits and health coverage.

" Neither Bush nor I regret hisstand on gay marriage. Theissue was thrust upon us and wewere perfectly willing to makeour case. To overturn the time-honored definition of marriageis a socially revolutionary act.To do so through the courts andagainst the will of the peoplemakes the attempt even moreradical," Rove writes, giving the

s t a n d a r d c r i t i q u e o f g a ymarriage that one hears in

conservative Christian circles.Rove also talks about the

allegations that his adoptedfather was gay -- allegations weblogged about the other daywhen he said in an interviewthat families should be off limitsin politics. He says that thereporters who pushed thoseallegations were " driven byhatred" and that they wanted topush the angle that Karl Rove,the anti-gay crusader, had a gayfather.For the record, Rove says he

does not know to this day anddoes not care if his late fatherwas gay.Rove does not have much more

to say on the hot-button socialissues and religious vote thathave been associated with himand Bush. I have only had achance to read a few sections of the book but according to theindex the word abortion is onlyfound on about a dozen of thebook's over 500 pages and some

of those references are brief.The word "evangelicalism" ismentioned on only a handful of pages as well.Rove was widely seen as a

hardened warrior in the trenchesof America's culture wars. Buthe says he was reluctantlydragged into some of thosebattles.

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Massa: some tickling, nothingsexual, and its about healthcare voteTabassum Z akaria ( Front Row Washington )Submitted at 3/9/2010 8:23:56 PM

One day after resigning as afreshman congressman fromUpstate New York, Eric Massahas found his 15 minutes of fame.He landed on two major talk

shows Tuesday Fox NewsChannels Glenn Beck andCNNs Larry King and they

both wanted to know abouta l l e g a t i o n s o f s e x u a lhar rassment aga ins t males ta ffe rs .Larry King asked him outright

if he was gay. Massa, who ismarried, said it was an insult toevery gay American that such aquestion was being asked in thisday and age, and he refused toanswer it.Glenn Beck wanted Massa to

name names in his allegations of a conspiracy to oust him fromCongress. When the talk showhost didnt succeed in elicitingthe answers he was seeking, heapologized to his audience forwasting their time with theinterview.

The fo l lowing a re somehighlights from the Massainterviews.

Now theyre saying I groped amale staffer yeah I did. Notonly did I grope him, I tickledhim until he couldnt breathe.Then four guys jumped on topof me, Massa told Beck. Itwas my 50th birthday. It waskill the old guy. You can takeanything out of context.He later said: I did nothing

sexual. I did some thingswrong.Massa told King that he had not

known that the allegations wereforwarded to the House EthicsCommittee by his former deputychief of staff a man who hadlived with his family and was

one of his wifes best friends.

When King asked several timeswhy the former congressmandid not call the former staffer tofind out what it was all about,Massa said he didnt have thenumber any more.At one point, Massa said the

main reason he resigned wasbecause of health concerns. Atanother, he said Democraticleadership wanted him gonebecause he didnt support their

h e a l t h c a r e r e f o r m . W h e npressed, Massa said he forcedhimself out.I am in trouble because Im aDemocrat standing up to ahorrific mistake that were aboutto make, period, Massa toldKing. You end up buckingyour party, youre out. T h a t s a b s u r d , H o u s eDemocratic leader Steny Hoyersaid, when asked about Massacontending he was being pushedout. That is really untrue.A b s o l u t e l y, d e f i n i t i v e l y,u n t r u e .

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General Odierno givesThe Hurt Locker

friendly reviewTabassum Z akaria ( Front Row Washington )Submitted at 3/9/2010 7:05:19 PM

As the top U.S. mili tarycommander in Iraq, General RayOdierno must have on-the-ground knowledge of theAmerican military teams thatdefuse roadside bombs in Iraq.So it seems like high praise,

indeed, that he complimentedthe Oscar-winning movie TheHur t Locker for how i tportrayed the sacrifices made bybomb disposal soldiers in theIraq war.I think what I like about it is, itshows, first, the camaraderiethat is required here, the tension,the risk thats involved in someof the jobs that we do here,Odierno said in an interview

with PBS Newshour.Im sure many people wouldsay it could be a bit moreaccurate in some areas, but Ib e l i e v e i t s a g o o drepresentation of the sacrifice,dedication that it takes here inorder to combat such a verydifficult mission of terrorism

a n d f i g h t i n g a w a r o nt e r r o r i s m , h e s a i d .The Hurt Locker , an Iraq wardrama about a team of bomb-defusing specialists, won theOscar for best picture andplaced Kathryn Bigelow intohistory books as the first womanever to win the Academy Awardfor best director.

Photo credit: Reuters/LucyNicholson (Bigelow poses withher Oscar for The Hur tLocker)

Antony Gormley takes his statues to New York

(World news: United States | guardian.co.uk ) Antony Gormley is breakinginto America with a debutshowing of publ ic a r t inManhat tan

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Honored, humbled and a bitembarrassed, first lady consigns her

gown to historyDavid Morg an ( Front Row Washington )Submitted at 3/9/2010 11:31:45 AM

Michelle Obama acknowledgedhaving mixed feelings Tuesdayas she consigned her 2009Inaugural Ball gown to posteritya n d a g l a s s c a s e a t t h eS m i t h s o n i a n .So, here we are. Its the dress,she laughed at a ceremony in theNational Museum of AmericanHistory to mark the addition of her one-shouldered, f loor-length, white si lk chiffongown to a permanent exhibit onfirst ladies.She was joined by the gowns

2 6 - y e a r - o l d Ta i w a n - b o r nd e s i g n e r, J a s o n Wu .To be honest , I am veryhonored and very humbled, but I

have to say that Im also a littleembarrassed by all the fuss, sheadded. Like many of you, Imnot used to people wanting top u t t h i n g s I v e w o r n o nd i s p l a y. Humble comments from the

first black woman to becomeAmericas first lady.

The co l lec t ion inc ludesinaugural gowns from thenations long march of January

g a l a s , i n c l u d i n g J a c k i eKennedys and Mary ToddLincolns.Mrs. Obama had to wonder

how the other first ladies feltin their dresses.Did her feet hurt in thoseshoes? How many times did herhusband step on that train? shesaid.

A n d w h a t o f h e r o w ne x p e r i e n c e ?When I look at my gown which I, in fact, have not seensince the day that I took it off memories of that moment truly

come rushing back. I rememberthat it was freezing cold inWashington. I know we allremember that. Yet, despite the

frigid temperatures, hundreds of thousands of people flooded theMall. Nothing was going tostop them from being part of history.Click here for more political

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Trainee teachers 'shouldact like Clint Eastwood

to gain respect'(Latest news, breaking news,current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news )

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Published: 4:18PM GMT 10Mar 2010Jim Wood, who trains teachers

a t t h e U n i v e r s i t y o f Southampton, champions an''intimidation through s ilence''approach similar to that of theDirty Harry movie star.Mr Wood, who is a deputy head

a t B a y H o u s e S c h o o l i nGosport, Hampshire, says thisis more effective than shoutinglike Arnold Schwarzenegger,which he c la ims only''entertains'' the children ratherthan control them.He presented his ideas to a

seminar of teachers held at the

Kip McGrath education centrein Portsmouth."The Arnold Schwarzeneggerstyle of teaching is to be strongand shouty," he said. ''Butmost pupils say they love that.They f ind i t en te r ta in ingbecause the teachers have lostcontrol and they can see themgoing red in the face and theirtemples throbbing.''The most effective, though, is

the Clint Eastwood style of

teaching. In films, the reallytough men are not ones with bigmachine guns. They're theones who stare and quietly say 'Idon't think you want to do that'.''There are times when you doneed to shout . But goodclass room management i sabout taking decisions. Myinstinct may be to shout. But if Istop for a second then I mightthink it would be better to use aquiet voice.''Linda Jones, director of the Kip

McGrath centre, said: ''Jim isreally exceptional. He coveredv a r i o u s t e c h n i q u e s a n ds t r a t e g i e s f o r m a n a g i n gbehaviour mainly for secondaryschool pupils.''His technique is about beingnon-confrontational, you do notget into an argument with the

pupils, you steer away from theconfrontation.''

She added tha t the twoseminars were fully booked anda third has now been arrangedto be held in Southampton onApril 21. Five Filters featured article:Chilcot Inquiry . Available tools:PDF Newspaper , Full Text RSS ,Term Extraction .

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Bibi's snub to Biden may backfire | Simon TisdallSimon Tisdall (World news: United States | guardian.co.uk )

Submitted at 3/10/2010 9:32:45 AM

I n t e n t i o n a l o r n o t , t h ea n n o u n c e m e n t o f n e wsettlements in East Jerusalemmay push the US into a tougherstance towards IsraelIt's not the first time that Israel

has stiffed Barack Obama overhis attempts to kick-start MiddleEast peace negotiations. But thesudden, highly inflammatoryannouncement of plans to buildan additional 1,600 homes in

occupied East Jerusalem , in themidst of a visit to Israel of USvice-president Joe Biden, wascertainly the most brutallycontemptuous rebuff so far toAmerican peacemaking.

It may be that BinyaminNetanyahu , Israel's rightwingprime minister, was unaware inadvance of the provisionaldecision by a Jerusalem districtplanning committee , as he

claims. But the announcementwas promulgated by his interiorministry, which thereby gave itan official stamp of approval. If Netanyahu did not know, thenwhy not?

D e s p i t e t h e e v i d e n tembarrassment and considerablepolitical damage caused by thedecision, Netanyahu has so farmade no move to repudiate it.Lesser figures, such as welfare

minister Isaac Herzog and

Israeli government spokesmanMark Regev were deployed onf i r e f i g h t i n g d u t i e s o nWednesday, dutifully utteringconditional words of contrition."We have to express ourapologies for this seriousblunder," Herzog said.But protestations of innocence

by interior minister Eli Yishai,head of the Shas religious partyin Netanyahu's coalition and nogreat advocate of Americanattempts to forge a two-statepeace sett lement with thePalestinians, are hard to credit.

" T h e r e w a s c e r t a i n l y n ointention to provoke anyone,and certainly not to come alongand hurt the vice-president of the United States," Yishai said.These are weasel words. Is it to

be believed that Yishai, likeNetanyahu, was unaware of what his own ministry wasdoing? Did he have no idea theplanning decision was pending?Did he, as an experienced

poli t ician, not foresee thedestructive political implicationso f t h i s a m b u s h ? L i k eNetanyahu, Yishai presumablyregards Jerusalem as Israel'seternal and indivisible capital.Another day on, it seems he wasdetermined to rub Biden's nosein that insupportable idea.The Americans, until now, have

been too polite, or too weak, tosay it, but Netanyahu spent most

last year deliberately frustrating

Obama's pledge to mediate aresolution of the Israel-Palestineconflict and with it, an end tothe Israel-Arab confrontationthat has scarred the region forgenerations. Netanyahu resisteddirect talks, rejected a fullsettlement freeze, flaunted hisuncompromising views onJerusalem, pooh-poohed a Syriaopening, and, at the same time,endlessly reiterated his supposedwill ingness to talk to theP a l e s t i n i a n s " w i t h o u tc o n d i t i o n s " .Simultaneously, Israel's leader

tried, with some success, to shiftthe US conversation on to Iran,w h i c h h e s a y s p o s e s a nexistential threat to his countryand the region. All in all, it wasan Oscar-standard performancein obfuscation, prevaricationand disingenuousness. To theachingly smart, but politicallyl e s s p u g n a c i o u s O b a m a ,Netanyahu's behaviour wasintellectually insulting. The fact

he has put up with it until nowmay be a measure of Israel'sclout in Washington, especiallyon Capitol Hill.This could change. Obama's

problem, and not just in theMiddle East, is that he is likedbut not feared. After a first yearin office devoid of substantiveachievement , Washingtoninsiders say the president mustshow he is ready to fight, to get

down and dirty, to drop his

professorial aloofness and getpublicly passionate and angryabout the things he believes in.At home, this could apply tohealthcare reform . Abroad, thenew approach may single outIsrael-Palestine.Biden's visit, though reassuring

and conciliatory on the surfaceu n t i l t h e e a s t J e r u s a l e mbombshell dropped, may mark the s ta r t o f th i s toughera p p r o a c h . M a n y O b a m asuppor te rs in the US andEurope, and in the post-CairoMuslim world, will wish it so.

The vice-president, whosea t tack dog qua l i t i es wereunleashed on the subjects of Russia and Ukraine last year,certainly did not mince hiswords, once he realised theextent of the insult."I condemn the decision by thegovernment of Israel to advanceplanning for new housing unitsin east Jerusalem," Biden said."The announcement . . . i s

precisely the kind of step thatundermines the trust we needright now and runs counter tothe constructive discussions thatI've had here in Israel." In thelast part of this sentence Bidenseems to be suggesting thatNetanyahu told him one thing tohis face and did another behindhis back. Little wonder he keptIsrael's first couple waiting fordinner.

It doesn't seem to realise it, but

Israel cannot afford to keep onbehaving in this disobligingmanner towards its friends.Whether it is blatant disregardf o r i n t e r n a t i o n a l r u l e sconcerning the protection of civilian life, as in Gaza; whetherit is calculated insults aimed atneighbours, as with Turkey; orwhether i t is the theft of passports and identities fromfriendly countries and thelawless assassination of itsenemies, as in Dubai, it goes toofar.Now, Netanyahu has deeply

angered his country's best andmost powerful friend again.The coming message to Bibi:don't over-reach. Comments on this article willremain open for 24 hours fromthe time of publication but maybe closed overnight Middle East Israel Joe Biden Binyamin Netanyahu

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Water Found in Apollo Moon Rocks( National Geographic News )Submitted at 3/9/2010 2:23:21 PM

Recently NASA crashed twospacecraft into the moon andorbiters scanned the lunars u r f a c e f o r t e l l t a l e l i g h tsignatures all to confirm therocky body isn't bone dry afterall.But, it turns out, solid evidence

for water on the moon wa sunder our noses the whole time.Tiny amounts of water have

been found in some of thefamous moon rocks brought

back to Earth by the Apolloastronauts, scientists announcedl a s t W e d n e s d a y .(Related: "Apollo 11 at 40:Facts, Myths, Photos, andMore." )The water levels detected in

Apollo moon rocks and volcanicglasses are in the thousands of p a r t s p e r m i l l i o n , a tmostwhich explains whyanalyses of the samples in the

late 1960s and early 1970sconcluded that the moon wasabsolutely arid."Only in the last decade haveinstruments become sensitiveenough to even analyze water atthose kinds of concentrations,"said Gary Lofgren , the lunarcurator at NASA's Johnson

Space Center in Houston, Texas.Lofgen, who wasn't involved

with the new research, called it"solid work" worthy of furtherinvestigation.( R e a d m o r e a b o u t m o o ne x p l o r a t i o n . )

New Line of Evidence forMoon WaterHints of water in moon samples

first surfaced in a 2008 study inthe journal Nature, in whichsc ien t i s t s repor ted havingdetecting water molecules inlunar glasses from the Apollomissions .

That team, however, hadn'tbeen able to prove the waterhadn't been introduced to themoon rocks on Earth, perhapsthrough sloppy handling.One way to determine a water

sample ' s b i r thp lace i s tom e a s u r e t h e a m o u n t s o f different hydrogen isotopesinside the watera techniqueunavailable to the Nature team,sa id James Greenwood , a

p r o f e s s o r o f E a r t h a n denvi ronmenta l sc iences a tWe s l e y a n U n i v e r s i t y i nMiddle town, Connec t icu t .

Isotope measurements canserve as fingerprints. Waterfrom Earth 's mantle has adifferent isotope ratio than waterfrom a comet, for example.

When the Nature study cameout, Greenwood was pioneeringa technique that allowed him tostudy the chemical makeups of Martian meteorites. He laterapplied his method to samplesof the mineral apatite, culledfrom a variety of moon-rock t y p e s , t o d e t e r m i n e t h ef i n g e r p r i n t o f t h e w a t e rm o l e c u l e s i n s i d e .The work proves that the moon-

rock water "is not from us," hesaid at a presentation of hisfindings at the 41st Lunar andPlanetary Science Conference in

Houston, Texas.( Video: Moon 101. )Water in the Moon MineralsAt the presentation, a second

team announced the discoveryof water in apatite-bearing rocksfrom one of the moon's mares,dark regions thought to havebeen formed by ancient lunarlava flows. (See "VolcanoesRocked Dark S ide of theMoon." )

In part by bombarding themineral with a particle beamfrom an electron microprobe,the researchers were able tocalculate the amounts of thegases fluorine and chlorinewithin the sample.

Given known formulas forapatite, the amounts of fluorine

and chlorine present suggestthere ' s another compoundneeded to complete the mineral'scrystal structure.The missing molecule, the team

c o n c l u d e d , m u s t b eh y d r o x i d e a c o m m o ncomponent of apatite and abyproduct of the breakup of water.The finding is "one of the first

to detect water in a lunarmagmatic mineral" and adds toevidence that moon magma, ingeneral, contains trace amountso f w a t e r , a c c o r d i n g t o

geoscientist Francis McCubbin ,who participated in the research.

But, though discoveries of moon water continue to mount,they're really just drops in thebucket, said McCubbin, of theCarnegie Institution for Sciencein Washington, D.C."While there is a lot more waterin the moon than we previouslythought," he said, "it is stillorders of magnitude drier than

t h e E a r t h a n d M a r s a n dtherefore completely consistentwith the last 40 years of lunarsample observation."Where's Moon Water From?Going forward, the researchers

plan to investigate how waterended up in the moon. The mostcommon guesses center on the

moon's earliest days, shortlyafter it had been created by thecollision of a Mars-size objectwith Earth.One possibility, according to

Wesleyan's Greenwood, is thaticy comets hit the molten youngmoon as it was still solidifying.Another possibility, said the

C a r n e g i e I n s t i t u t i o n ' sMcCubbin, is that not quite allthe water was driven off whenchunks of Earth were flungs p a c e w a r d t o f o r m t h emoonin other words, thewater may be from an ancient

version Earth. (See "Where IsW a t e r o n M o o nFromVolcanoes , Sun . . .Ear th?" )The tiny amounts of water now

being found in lunar rocks areabout what youd expect if water had been depleted duringt h e m o o n ' s f i e r y b i r t h ,McCubbin said. "But you arenever going to get rid of all of it."

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Tortured logic of intelligence chief | Vikram DoddVikram Dodd (World news: United States | guardian.co.uk )

Submitted at 3/10/2010 7:31:07 AM

F o r m e r M I 5 h e a d E l i z aManningham-Buller deniesknowing about mistreatment of detainees. Didn't she read thepapers?To be fair to Britain's security

services, the gathering of intelligence can be the mostdifficult of jobs.The claim on Wednesday from

the former head of MI5, ElizaManningham-Buller , that the

US hid from the UK securityservices the torture they weremeting out to the Muslim menthey had labelled terrorists,comes as a bit of surprise. In alecture given in the Palace of Westminster , she related:"I said to my staff, 'Why is he[Khalid Sheikh Mohammed]talking?' because our experienceof Irish prisoners and terroristswas tha t they never sa id

anyth ing "They said the Americans sayh e i s v e r y p r o u d o f h i sachievements when questionedabout it. It wasn't actually untilafter I retired that I read that, infact, he had been waterboarded160 times."She went on to claim that "The

Americans were very keen thatpeople like us did not discover

what they were doing."It did not require a high degree

of James Bond-style espionagefor MI5 to realise much earlierthan she says it did thatGuantnamo and other US siteswere places where torture waspractised.Before her retirement in 2007,

then, all that Manningham-Buller needed to have beendoing was read a decentnewspaper or use a web search,either of which would haveproduced headlines and articlesthat would have pricked the

curiosity of even the dullest of minds. Never mind those whosee themselves as among thesharpest and brightest.So, for the benefit of the former

intelligence chief, the list of r e p o r t i n g o f d i s t u r b i n gallegations and evidence of torture employed by the US andits allies in the war on terrorstarts here but please add yourown in the thread below:

Guardian: Father fears for sonheld by US in Afghanistan, 10February 2003 Guardian: Briton held as terrorsuspect says CIA threatenedtorture, 4 October 2003 Guardian: Officials 'knew of beatings at Guantnamo', 15May 2004 Observer: US guards 'filmedbeatings' at terror camp, 16 May

2004 New York Times: Threats andresponses: The interrogations;Account of plot sets off debateover credibility, 17 June 2004 Guardian: US abuse could bewar crime, 5 August 2004 Times: Britons accuse USGovernment of ' torture ' atGuantnamo Bay, 28 October2004 Times: Guantnamo reportreveals 'torture', 1 December2004 Guardian: Guantnamo Briton'in handcuff torture', 2 January

2005 Independent: My nightmare of torture and assault, by Britonheld in Guantnamo, 30 January2005 Washington Post: Va. terrorsuspect testifies to torture, 20October 2005 Guardian: Hunger strikersallege 'force feed torture' atGuantnamo, 21 October 2005 Guardian: Torture claims

'forced US to cut terror charges',25 November 2005 ABC News: History of ani n t e r r o g a t i o n t e c h n i q u e :Waterboarding, 29 November2005 Telegraph: Torture law victoryfor terror suspects, 9 December2005 Guardian: US accused of usinggangster tactics over terror

suspects, 25 January 2006 Washington Post: Guantnamoforce-feeding tactics are calledtorture, 1 March 2006 Guardian: Evidence againstterror suspect extracted bytorture, hearing told, 10 May2006 Times: Bush admits thatterrorist suspects were held ins e c r e t p r i s o n n e t w o r k , 7S e p t e m b e r 2 0 0 6 Guardian: Cheney condemnedfor backing water torture, 28October 2006 Torture

Guantnamo Bay al-Qaida Khalid Sheikh Mohammed MI5 MI6 Human rights United States Dick Cheney George Bush Global terrorism Terrorism policy UK security and terrorism

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Destroyed HousesP h o t o g r a p h b y N i c o l s

P i w o n k aSmashed houses and other

debris lie scattered in the mudleft after waters receded fromthe village of Tubul, Chile, asseen in a March 6, 2010, aerialphotograph.

Following the February 27

Chile earthquake , many of theseaside houses in the 3,000-person village were inundatedby both a succession of tsunamiwaves and the overflowingTubul River, according to theNew York Times.As of March 2, the rural, mostly

poor village had not yet receivedany aid from local or federalofficials, residents told theTimes, though people there are

desperate for drinkable water,food, and fuel.Published March 9, 2010

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Lava, Not Water, Made Mars "Riverbed"( National Geographic News )Submitted at 3/9/2010 2:35:15 PM

A channel in an ancient Martian"riverbed" wasn't carved byliquid water but was built bymolten lava, according to a newstudy of surface features onMars .Pictures of the red planet have

long revealed features such asva l leys and a l luv ia l fansreminiscent of those seenaround water bodies on Earth.(Related: "Huge Mars RegionShaped by Water, Rover

M i s s i o n F i n d s . " )Water is a prerequisite for life

as we know it, so these formerlywet landscapes have been toutedas some of the best places onMars to look for traces of pastlife.But new high-resolution images

of a peculiar 168-mile-long (270-kilometer-long) channel nearthe Ascraeus Mons volcanoaren't likely to have been made

by water after all."We started seeing that, insteadof this [liquid] cutting into anexisting surface, it was buildinga surfaceit built a ridge up to40 meters [130 feet] high"millions of years ago, said studyco-author Jacob Bleacher of NASA's Goddard Space FlightCenter in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The channel is also roofed overin some areas and lined withventsfeatures most oftenassociated with lava tubes. OnEarth, lava tubes form duringsustained volcanic eruptions ,when lava flowing throughpreviously solidified massesleaves behind empty channels inthe rock. (Related: "Mars HasCave Networks, New PhotosSuggest." )"You don't see this on Earth in[river] settings," Bleacher said."But you see it all the time involcanic settings. So that's kind

of our smoking gun."That's not to say liquid water

never flowed on Mars, saidBleacher, who presented hiswork last week at the 41st Lunara n d P l a n e t a r y S c i e n c eC o n f e r e n c e .But the findings do mean that

researchers might need toreevaluate when and where theythink water might have existedo n t h e r e d p l a n e t .

(Related: "Mars Had LiquidWater in Recent Past, RoverFinds." )Solving a Martian PuzzleThe results are also exciting

because they add new layers toMars's volcanic history, saidLaszlo Kestay , a planetarygeologist on the NASA teamthat produced the new images of

the channel."I think there are some veryclearly water-formed features onMars, but there are other thingsthat are more puzzling. Jake andc o l l e a g u e s m a k e a v e r ycompelling case that at least thisone is volcanic," said Kestay,wi th the U.S . Geologica lSurvey's Astrogeology ScienceCenter.And there's a good chance other

channels in the Ascraeus Monsarea will turn out to be lava-made as well, Kestay said.In general, the latest find is

among the myriad new detailsabout Martian lava flows beinguncovered by high-resolutionimaging of the Martian surface,Kestay said.The new image data, he said,

are "revealing not just thesechannels but a whole suite of smaller volcanic features andshowing that volcanism is morewidespread spatially than peoplethought."

NASA Grants a "HiWish"In addition, the new studyhighlights a pioneering programthat allows people anywhere inthe world to get behind the lensof the Mars-orbiting cameraused in Bleacher ' s work :N A S A ' s H i g h R e s o l u t i o nImaging Science Experiment. HiRISE started sending back

color pictures of the Martiansurface in 2007 , with theprimary goal of f inding asuitable landing site for theupcoming Mars rover Curiosity ,slated to launch in 2011.Now that the options have been

narrowed down to four possiblelanding s i tes , NASA haslaunched HiWish , a Web sitewhere the public can suggestnew targets for the high-resolution camera.Bleacher's research is based on

images taken after he hadsubmitted a request to a beta

v e r s i o n o f H i Wi s h m a d eava i lab le to sc ien t i s t s .

In previous pictures of theAscraeus Mons region of Mars,"the big hindrance has been thatyou can see [only] the bigfeatures," Bleacher said. "Butyou really need the details to seehow things evolved."HiRISE offers "a more detailed

glimpse into what's going onwith these volcanoes. Now, as

we're able to look at these thingsin their entirety, we really needto readdress our thoughts onhow they formed." Five Filters featured article:Chilcot Inquiry . Available tools:PDF Newspaper , Full Text RSS ,Term Extraction .

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Ancient Corpses Ritually Dug Up, Torn Apart,Reburied( National Geographic News )

Submitted at 3/9/2010 2:33:30 PM

According to the first knownevidence of "double burials,"ancient people in what is nowMexico rout ine ly dug updecomposing bodies and took off their arms, legs, and heads,then reburied the bodies, newresearch shows.Indigenous peoples of the Cape

Region of Baja California Sur(see map) practiced these doubleburials for about 4,500 years,from about 300 B.C. to the 16th-century A.D, when Europeansfirst arrived in the region,anthropologists say.To the native groups, death was

"a motionless, painful state,from which the living couldfree" the dead by sectioning thelimbs, physical anthropologistAlfonso Rosales-Lopez said inan ema i l t r an s l a t e d f r o mSpan i sh . "(See pictures of facedownburials from around the world. )The double-burial practice, he

added, is consistent with beliefsin other cultures around theworld that death isn't the end of

life but rather a passing from

one state to another.Since 1991 Rosales-Lopez hasexamined more than a hundredof the double burials along thes o u t h e r n c o a s t o f B a j aCalifornia and is currentlyworking on a paper describingthe practice.Double-Burial Corpses Torn

Limb From LimbImmedia te ly af ter dea th ,

candidates for double burialwere shrouded in animal skinsand bound tightly in the fetalposition with cords made froma g a v e p l a n t s , t h e s a m esucculents used in tequilaproduction. Each corpse wasthen placed in an individualshal low grave l ined wi thseashells, charcoal, and soil."It would appear this would endthe funeral, but the abundanceof sectioned remains clearlys h o w s t h i s i s n o t t h ecaserather, it was only thefirst part," said Rosalez-Lopez,of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History .About six to eight months after

a first burial, a body would beexhumed. At this point, the

corpse would have decomposed

enough that the limbs and headcould be easily broken off, henoted.

O n c e s e p a r a t e d , t h edismembered parts were placednear the body and reburied.Near the burial sites, Rosalez-

Lopez and colleagues also foundstone toolssuch as projectileheads, knives, and fishingharpoonsthat would havebeen used to kill and preparefood. Food remains includingshells of mollusks, seeds, andplants were also discovered.(Related: "Baja California Rock Art Dated to 7,500 Years Ago." )Reasons for Double Burials

Still SpeculativeDouble burials appear unique to

the Cape Region, said Do nLaylander, senior archaeologistw i t h t h e a r c h a e o l o g i c a lconsulting firm ASM Affiliatesand co-editor of The Prehistoryof Baja California: Advances int h e A r c h a e o l o g y o f t h eF o rg o t t e n P e n i n s u l a .Rosales-Lopez's research also

offers some new insight into theculture of Mexico's ancientnative peoples, Laylander said.

For instance, the double burials

and the shells and bones foundat the sites certainly point to ac u l t u r e t h a t e m p h a s i z e dc e r e m o n y a n d w e r eseminomadic, Laylander, whowas n o t i nvo l v ed i n t heresearch , noted v ia emai l .That's because the artifacts

suggests the people did notabandon the i r se t t lementsforeverthey had an obligationto revisit and protect their dead,project leader Rosalez-Lopezsaid.Not much more is known about

the culture, Laylander said. TheCape Region groups becameculturally extinct more than twocenturies ago, he added, andt h e r e a r e f e w m o d e r nethnographic accounts of them.

As f o r Ros a l e s - Lop ez ' sinterpretations as to why theb o d i e s w e r e t o r n a p a r t ,L a y l a n d e r s a i d t h o s ec o n c l u s i o n s a r e o n l y" s p e c u l a t i o n . " Five Filters featured article:Chilcot Inquiry . Available tools:PDF Newspaper , Full Text RSS ,Term Extraction .

China Mobile Bets$5.8 Billion onMobile BankingTom Taulli ( BloggingStocks )Submitted at 3/10/2010 12:20:00 PM

Filed under: Compet i t iveStrategy , China Mobile Limited(CHL)In terms of subscribers, China

Mobile ( CHL ) is the largestmobile carrier (the base is morethan 500 million). But of course,the company wants to becomeeven bigger.And one of the most promising

markets is mobile payment.However, it can be difficult topull this off. So, China Mobilehas agreed to pay $5.83 billion

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Google Maps to add bike maps, directionsTom Krazit ( Webware.com )Submitted at 3/9/2010 9:00:00 PM

Cyclists will be able to use

Google Maps to plot directionsaround 150 U.S. cities whenbike directions go l ive onGoogle later on Tuesday.

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Number of failing schools leaps 150 per centunder new regime(Top stories from Times Online )Submitted at 3/10/2010 5:25:48 AM

The proportion of schools judged inadequate has leaptsince a tougher inspectionregime was introduced last year.Ofsted inspectors placed 218

schools 10 per cent of thoseinspected in i ts lowestcategory in the first four monthsof the new regime.Of these, 102 were placed in

special measures and 116 givennotices to improve.This represents a jump of 150

per cent from the previousacademic year, when 4 per centof the schools inspected werefound to be inadequate.Fewer schools were also judged

outstanding. A total of 199 weregiven Osfteds highest ratingb e t w e e n S e p t e m b e r a n dDecember, or 10 per cent of those inspected, compared with19 per cent in the previous year.Christine Gilbert, Ofsteds chief

inspector, said it was misleadingto compare the figures because

since the new inspections were

introduced in autumn last yearinspectors had focused onweaker schools.Schools previously found to be

good or outstanding are nowinspected less once everyfive years while those judgedonly satisfactory or weak areinspected every three years.Weaker schools also receivemonitoring visits after aninspection.Ms Gilbert said: My job is to

raise expectations on behalf of the pupils and parents. It seemsto be absolutely right thatparents expect their child canattend a good school, that theycan thrive at that school, learnwell at that school and achievegood results.The new inspection regime

brought protests from heads andteachers, particularly ver then e w n e w t h r e s h o l d s f o rachievement, child protectionand equality which schools hadto meet to be judged good oroutstanding.Ms Gilbert suggested that such

concerns were not borne out by

the figures only 17 schoolsof 2,140 inspected since thenhad failed because of childprotection practice alone, shesai

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