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Mars's North Pole Is Layered, Scientists Say
By JOHN JOHNSON JR.
Mars's north pole, like a French parfait, comes in layers.
Scientists analyzing radar images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft have found up to seven distinct layers of ice and dust beneath the north pole.
A scientist with the...
MySpace User Who Posed As Teenager Indicted in Girl's Suicide
By SCOTT GLOVER
LOS ANGELES — A federal grand jury yesterday indicted a woman of fraudulently using a MySpace.com account to "cyber-bully" a Missouri teenager who later hanged herself because she believed she was being rejected by a 16-year-old boy she met on the...
Florida To Consider Repeal of a State-Church Law
By JACQUELINE L. SALMON
The potential repeal of a century-old Florida law barring state funding for religiously affiliated organizations is to be put before the voters there this fall, at the end of a lobbying battle that has attracted the attention of President Bush and has...
On The HUSTINGS
By Staff Reporter of the Sun
ENDORSEMENT WATCH
Senator Obama scored four more superdelegate endorsements yesterday, including two powerful committee chairmen in the House of Representatives. The head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Henry Waxman, and...
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Gay Marriage is Back in the Race
Coast Court Okays Rites of Same Sex
By JOSH GERSTEIN
PALO ALTO, Calif. — The California Supreme Court's decision legalizing same-sex marriage could thrust the issue back into the national debate during this year's presidential race, but in a way that could pose obstacles to both Senator Obama and...
Iraq Victory By 2013, McCain Says
By RUSSELL BERMAN
WASHINGTON — Senator McCain is laying out a vision for a four-year term as president that includes a homecoming for American troops from Iraq, congressional passage of a flat tax alternative, and substantial progress on a range of issues from health...
El Nino Aided Magellan In Trip Around the World
By RANDOLPH SCHMID
WASHINGTON — The El Nino phenomenon that has puzzled climate scientists in recent decades may have assisted the first trip around the world nearly 500 years ago.
Explorer Ferdinand Magellan encountered fair weather on November 28, 1520, after days of...
Siblings Separated By Nazis To Reconnect
By Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia woman separated from her family by the Nazis is preparing for a reunion with a brother she hasn't seen in 66 years.
Irene Famulak was 17 and when the Nazis invaded the Ukrainian Catholic family's home in 1942. Ms....
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