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- STARGAZER DENNIS MAMMANA
Fuzzy patch of light is a stunning 2-star cluster
If you are outside just after dark this week and aim binoculars low toward the northeastern sky – about midway between the constellations Cassiopeia and Perseus – you might think you're seeing double. That's because you are.
- Sweet smells may lead to sweet dreams
What you smell may influence emotions in your dreams, according to a new study. When researchers gave dreaming subjects whiffs of rose scent, the subjects reported rosier dreams. The scent of rotten eggs, on the other hand, provoked unpleasant dreams, the study found.
- Questions answered
What caused the migration of early humans out of Africa? Was there sufficient climatic change to make it better to leave than take the risk of trying to adapt to some sort of environmental change?
- Eureka!
Wood-chomping pests like the pine bark beetle are already infamous for their devastating impact on forests. Now, it appears, their destructiveness isn't limited to trees.
- Endangered-species status reinstated for gray wolf
A federal court has overturned the Bush administration's decision to remove gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region from the endangered species list.
- Report warns of perils facing the Everglades
The eight-year-old, multibillion-dollar effort to rescue the Everglades has failed to halt the wetlands' decline because of bureaucratic delays, a lack of financing from Congress and overdevelopment, according to a new report.
- 'Sea batteries': Ocean waves are tested as possible energy source
Five miles off the southern tip of New Jersey's Long Beach Island, an oversize yellow buoy floats alone, purposefully mounting the waves and occasionally phoning home.
- Ifill knows her role as moderator of debate: resist candidates' spin
Being selected the moderator for a vice presidential debate is something like opening a suitcase on “Deal or No Deal” and finding $1,000. Nice prize, but it's no jackpot.
- NIELSENS
'Dancing,' 'Housewives' lift ABC
Strong openings by “Dancing With the Stars” and ABC's most popular prime-time soaps led the network to victory during the first week of a new TV season.
- DEAR ABBY
Drunken ex setting a bad example for kids, and you can't change him
My ex and I have been dating since our divorce in 2000, trying to put things back together. But every six months or so, he comes to my house drunk and raises Cain in front of the kids.
- TELL ME ABOUT IT CAROLYN HAX
Stand solid without slipping into guilt
My dad got sick a year ago with an illness that requires full-time care. My mother is basically in charge of his care, which I think she's handling well, all things considered. They live about a 15-hour drive away.
- HINTS FROM HELOISE
Clothes should only shrink so much
Ever wonder what causes a shirt to shrink? Well, we here at Heloise Central went right to the Drycleaning & Laundry Institute for an answer: Manufacturers allow for a normal 2 percent and progressive shrinkage tolerance, which usually is not noticeable enough to cause complaint.
- Horoscope
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