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China goes boldly
China intends to establish a human base on the moon by late in the next decade, and to send a probe to Mars that can return to Earth.
Minnesota tough: Photographer caught in dog v. longhorn kerfuffle
If you've spent any time online in the last day or so, you probably haven't missed the bovine drama of athletic competition when the mascot of the University of Texas -- a longhorn -- ran roughshod over photographers who, for reasons not yet explained, were overly enthralled by a dog, in this case the mascot of the University of Georgia at the Sugar Bowl.
The Angle, for those of you who've not studied maps of Minnesota, is a spit of land in Lake of the Woods County that is north of the line that generally defines the U.S. border and belongs to the United States. It is -- other than Alaska -- the only U.S. territory north of the 49th parallel -- i.e. the border.
Warren MacKenzie died Monday morning at 94 years old. There aren't a lot of people who are both potter and hero.