NASA’s Messenger spacecraft will do a flyby of Mercury on Tuesday, and a University of Colorado spectrometer will take advantage of the opportunity to analyze a few select targets such as surface craters.
Until the State Department put their images on its Flickr page, most people in Spain had never seen the elusive teenagers. You’d think someone in the diplomatic corps would know how the prime minister feels about his children’s privacy.
Critics are firing political arrows at the English city’s leaders for spending taxpayer money on a nine-day, $16,000 journey to look at tourist attractions. So much for stealing from the rich and giving to the poor.
With world leaders converging in New York for a U.N. summit, a pressing issue threatens to overwhelm the conference.
It’s the first day of fall, although you wouldn’t know it from the potential snow looming in the forecast.
Here’s something you don’t see every day: a monkey standing on a goat, which is balancing on a vase, which is sitting on a tightrope during a show at China’s Monkey Island tourist attraction. See the photo at London’s Telegraph.
The Colorado Rockies have two weeks until the end of the regular season, and for just the third time in their history they look like they’ll play beyond the final Sunday. The postseason would extend the Rockies career of a few players by a few weeks and delay a number tough decisions facing the team.
sfoster: There's no question Barmes is better defensively than Young, but EY has been solid at second since he came up … - Rockies find right lineup, need to stick with it
mmonkman: or too much Jack and Coke (not the beverage) :-) just couldn't resist … - A little decorum, please
robba: Generally agree with your analysis, but concerned with EY's defense. I think Barmes turns the DP on the feed from … - Rockies find right lineup, need to stick with it