A quote by Bertrand Russell, All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction.

There's going to be a satellite telescope launched later this year and it will look towards the middle of the galaxy, to see if we can see dark matter particles annihilating and producing gamma rays that could be detected with this.

It fosters intergenerational relations, prevents displacement of traditional activities, limits the chances of engagement in risky behaviour, promotes volunteer activities and gives young people the chance to build networks among themselves.

Over a few days, the Tunisian regime that invested billions of dollars in the security agencies, billions of dollars in maintaining, trying to maintain, its prisons, collapsed, disappeared, because of the voices of the public.

The war in Afghanistan bleeds more lives and treasure into the inhospitable terrain of that sad land, with little immediate chance of whatever might constitute sufficient success to allow America and its allies to quit. And the problems of Pakistan fester next door.

The Obama administration must seize the initiative and insist that Netanyahu unequivocally support Israeli withdrawal from the Occupied Territories the sine qua non for a two state solution. Otherwise, tension looms in the Israeli American relationship, and calls for one state with equal rights for all will begin to drown out older ideological visions, as settlement activity forecloses the prospect of two states.