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KUNDUZ, Afghanistan — Forget the drones, laser-guided bombs and eye-popping satellite imagery. For the average soldier, the most significant change to modern warfare might just boil down to instant chatting. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

This being the month for romance, or at least a good marketing hook, February’s books are bound in red. A mean old man, a teenage runaway, a psychiatrist and an American student in Paris all get to fall in love. In the novel “Solo,” as the title suggests, a man remembers a life without it. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

Even when they involve 14-foot tiger sharks preserved in formaldehyde or pictures of Jeff Koons in flagrante delicto, commercial art gallery exhibitions in New York don’t often draw capacity crowds. And they almost never move people to line up along the postindustrial streets of Chelsea on weekday winter mornings as if a sample sale were

Javier Bardem, Nuria Espert, Juan Diego, Pilar López de Ayala e Imanol Arias son algunos de los artistas finalistas a los Premios Unión de Actores que reconocen los mejores trabajos en cine, teatro y televisión durante el pasado año 2010. La ceremonia de entrega tendrá lugar el 4 de abril en el Teatro Circo Price. Este año no sólo

Los principales intérpretes de las series de TVE "Pelotas" y "Cuéntame" acaparan este año la mayoría de las nominaciones de la categoría de Televisión de los Premios de la Unión de Actores, hechas públicas hoy por esta entidad. En la categoría de Actor Protagonista, optan Javier Albalá ("Pelotas"), Imanol Arias ("Cuéntame") y José

La cantante María Dolores Pradera ha protagonizado en el Instituto Cervantes una "conversación con amigos" bajo el título "María Dolores Pradera, voz de las dos orillas", en la que han participado personalidades como la ministra de Cultura, Angeles González-Sinde, o los periodistas Iñaki Gabilondo y Concha García Campoy. El acto conducido

In healthy adults, the hippocampus — a part of the brain important to the formation of memories — begins to atrophy around 55 or 60. Now psychologists are suggesting that the hippocampus can be modestly expanded, and memory improved, by nothing more than regular walking. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

WHEN Erin Ogg, 45, of New Orleans and her girlfriends sip cocktails at the Sazerac Bar in the city’s historic Roosevelt Hotel, they dress as if it’s the 1940s or ’50s; wearing dresses with cinched waists, or pencil skirts and blouses, accessorized with hats and gloves. “We get a lot of compliments,” said Ms ... Lea el artículo completo

WHEN Erin Ogg, 45, of New Orleans and her girlfriends sip cocktails at the Sazerac Bar in the city’s historic Roosevelt Hotel, they dress as if it’s the 1940s or ’50s; wearing dresses with cinched waists, or pencil skirts and blouses, accessorized with hats and gloves. “We get a lot of compliments,” said Ms ... Lea el artículo completo

As the nation’s obesity crisis continues unabated, federal regulators on Monday issued their bluntest nutrition advice to date: drink water instead of sugary drinks like soda, fill your plate with fruits and vegetables and cut down on processed foods filled with sodium, fat or sugar. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

The trustee representing the victims of Bernard L. Madoff’s multibillion dollar Ponzi scheme is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars from the owners of the Mets, alleging that they, as longtime and successful investors, knew or should have known Madoff was operating a fraud, according to two lawyers involved in the case ... Lea el artículo

The guaranteed contract is a fundamental principle of Major League Baseball, as much a part of the game as balls, strikes and outs. No matter how a player performs, or how his body holds up, he must be paid in full. Only in rare cases — an injury sustained off the field, gross personal misconduct — does a player forfeit his paycheck ...

Many joggers don earbuds and listen to music to distract themselves from the rigors of running. But might the Black Eyed Peas or Rihanna distract them so much that they jog into traffic? Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

The guaranteed contract is a fundamental principle of Major League Baseball, as much a part of the game as balls, strikes and outs. No matter how a player performs, or how his body holds up, he must be paid in full. Only in rare cases — an injury sustained off the field, gross personal misconduct — does a player forfeit his paycheck ...

Many joggers don earbuds and listen to music to distract themselves from the rigors of running. But might the Black Eyed Peas or Rihanna distract them so much that they jog into traffic? Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

The new daily recommendations for calcium and vitamin D, issued in November by the Institute of Medicine, have left many people wondering whether they are getting enough, or perhaps too much, in their diets and supplements. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

The “princess phase.” So inevitable is this period in the maturation of girls today that it should qualify as an official developmental stage, worthy of an entry in Leach or Brazelton: first crawling, then walking, then the urgent desire to wear something pink and spark­ly. Whether we smile indulgently or roll our eyes at the drifts of

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Once a week or so, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers strolls into Cheese Cake Heaven, a delicatessen and bakery near Lambeau Field popular with Packers players and their wives. Deb Katers, who works the register at lunchtime, said Rodgers often chose the build-your-own sandwich option — “a turkey avocado kind of thing,”

The “princess phase.” So inevitable is this period in the maturation of girls today that it should qualify as an official developmental stage, worthy of an entry in Leach or Brazelton: first crawling, then walking, then the urgent desire to wear something pink and spark­ly. Whether we smile indulgently or roll our eyes at the drifts of

The “princess phase.” So inevitable is this period in the maturation of girls today that it should qualify as an official developmental stage, worthy of an entry in Leach or Brazelton: first crawling, then walking, then the urgent desire to wear something pink and spark­ly. Whether we smile indulgently or roll our eyes at the drifts of

The “princess phase.” So inevitable is this period in the maturation of girls today that it should qualify as an official developmental stage, worthy of an entry in Leach or Brazelton: first crawling, then walking, then the urgent desire to wear something pink and spark­ly. Whether we smile indulgently or roll our eyes at the drifts of

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Once a week or so, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers strolls into Cheese Cake Heaven, a delicatessen and bakery near Lambeau Field popular with Packers players and their wives. Deb Katers, who works the register at lunchtime, said Rodgers often chose the build-your-own sandwich option — “a turkey avocado kind of thing,”

The Irish are still mesmerized by the mythical place that is America, but in the ’60s our fascination got out of hand. I was not old enough to remember the sacrifices of the great generation who saved Europe in the Second World War, or to quite comprehend what was going on in Vietnam. But what I do remember, and cannot forget, is watching

TUCSON — No one has suggested that his use of a hallucinogenic herb or any other drugs contributed to Jared L. Loughner’s apparent mental unraveling that culminated with his being charged in a devastating outburst of violence here. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

La capilla ardiente del compositor, arreglista y director de orquesta Augusto Algueró, que falleció ayer en Torremolinos (Málaga), quedará instalada a las 12:00 horas de hoy en la sede de la Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE), en Madrid, confirmaron a Efe fuentes de esta entidad. A partir del mediodía, todos los ciudadanos

El compositor, arreglista y director de orquesta Augusto Algueró ha fallecido hoy en su residencia familiar de Torremolinos (Málaga), mientras dormía, informó la Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE). Socio y miembro desde mayo de 1995 de la Junta Directiva de la SGAE, la capilla ardiente se instalará mañana en la sede madrileña

IN a great many fields, researchers would give their eyeteeth to have a direct glimpse of the past. Instead, they generally have to piece together remote conditions using remnants like weathered fossils, decaying parchments or mummified remains. Cosmology, the study of the origin and evolution of the universe, is different ... Lea el artículo

IT was an unusual commission, unlike anything that Stuart Silk, a Seattle architect, had been offered in his quarter-century of practice: design three high-end custom homes for clients he would never meet. Although there were some specifications for functions and dimensions — total square feet, for example, and the number of bedrooms and

Hay algo especialmente apropiado en el hecho de que la actual crisis europea empezase en Grecia. Porque los males de Europa tienen todo el aspecto de una tragedia griega clásica, en la que un hombre de carácter noble encuentra su perdición por el defecto fatal del orgullo desmedido... Europa padece una crisis profunda;

Un discurso que ha devuelto a Obama la iniciativa política en Estados Unidos y deja arrinconados a los republicanos en su extremismo. Treinta y tres minutos en los que obró el milagro de transformar la sangre en esperanza en un momento que definirá su mandato y que levantó de sus sillas a las más de 14.000

TUCSON — Officials at Pima Community College, where Jared L. Loughner was a student, believed that he might be mentally ill or under the influence of drugs after a series of bizarre classroom disruptions in which he unnerved instructors and fellow students, including one occasion when he insisted that the number 6 was actually the number

TUCSON — Officials at Pima Community College, where Jared L. Loughner was a student, believed that he might be mentally ill or under the influence of drugs after a series of bizarre classroom disruptions in which he unnerved instructors and fellow students, including one occasion when he insisted that the number 6 was actually the number

While some New Yorkers eat out or order in so often that they have been known to use kitchen cabinets as shoe storage, real estate brokers continue to talk up the merits of apartments that feature “chef’s kitchens.” The term conjures up visions of professionals using acres of counter space and island stoves to perfect their braising

YOU know that a new year has truly arrived when critics stop issuing all those lists of the best films, books, plays, recordings and whatever of the year gone by. These lists seem to be popular with readers, and they stir up lively reactions. Like other critics I enjoy recalling the pieces and performances that struck me as exceptionally good,

The New York Times Book Review’s advice and miscellaneous best-seller list — the place where self-help books go to eyeball one another — is a boisterous rolling carnival of hustlers and hacks and optimists and jokers, with the occasional naked lady, tent preacher, dog trainer or television chef thrown in for good measure ... Lea el artículo

The New York Times Book Review’s advice and miscellaneous best-seller list — the place where self-help books go to eyeball one another — is a boisterous rolling carnival of hustlers and hacks and optimists and jokers, with the occasional naked lady, tent preacher, dog trainer or television chef thrown in for good measure ... Lea el artículo

The New York Times Book Review’s advice and miscellaneous best-seller list — the place where self-help books go to eyeball one another — is a boisterous rolling carnival of hustlers and hacks and optimists and jokers, with the occasional naked lady, tent preacher, dog trainer or television chef thrown in for good measure ... Lea el artículo

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. — In the aftermath of a football academic scandal at Auburn in 2006 that caused two department heads to step down and the N.C.A.A. to investigate, university officials are no longer bragging — or even talking — about the team’s once-stellar scholastic record. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

When “Exit Through the Gift Shop,” the artistic conundrum of a documentary wrapped around the street artist Banksy, opened last year, it spawned more than a few critical essays’ worth of thorny, postmodern questions. Was it a hoax staged by an internationally known cultural prankster or a wry commentary on an overblown art world? Was

NOGALES, Ariz. — Of the 50 or so women bused to this border town on a recent morning to be deported back to Mexico, Inez Vasquez stood out. Eight months pregnant, she had tried to trudge north in her fragile state, even carrying scissors with her in case she gave birth in the desert and had to cut the umbilical cord ... Lea el artículo

PARIS — The French colonial experience in Algeria, marked by warfare, terrorism and torture, is a wound that never quite seems to close. Anger and guilt about Algeria infuse some of the anxiety today about the heavily immigrant and Muslim banlieues, or suburbs, about the French concern with national identity, radical Islam and veiled women

Times Square had the ball drop, and Brasstown, N.C., had its descending possum. But no place had a New Year’s Eve as unusual, or freakishly disturbing, as Beebe, Ark. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

NOGALES, Ariz. — Of the 50 or so women bused to this border town on a recent morning to be deported back to Mexico, Inez Vasquez stood out. Eight months pregnant, she had tried to trudge north in her fragile state, even carrying scissors with her in case she gave birth in the desert and had to cut the umbilical cord ... Lea el artículo

PARIS — The French colonial experience in Algeria, marked by warfare, terrorism and torture, is a wound that never quite seems to close. Anger and guilt about Algeria infuse some of the anxiety today about the heavily immigrant and Muslim banlieues, or suburbs, about the French concern with national identity, radical Islam and veiled women

The American entertainment industry has never been comfortable with the act of abortion. Film or television characters might consider the procedure, but even on the most libertine programs (a “Mad Men,” a “Sex and the City”), they’re more likely to have a change of heart than actually go through with it ... Lea el artículo completo

Times Square had the ball drop, and Brasstown, N.C., had its descending possum. But no place had a New Year’s Eve as unusual, or freakishly disturbing, as Beebe, Ark. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

The American entertainment industry has never been comfortable with the act of abortion. Film or television characters might consider the procedure, but even on the most libertine programs (a “Mad Men,” a “Sex and the City”), they’re more likely to have a change of heart than actually go through with it ... Lea el artículo completo

The American entertainment industry has never been comfortable with the act of abortion. Film or television characters might consider the procedure, but even on the most libertine programs (a “Mad Men,” a “Sex and the City”), they’re more likely to have a change of heart than actually go through with it ... Lea el artículo completo

IT must have been the third or fourth day — time, by that point, had started to dissolve — when I stood in camping gear on Fifth Avenue, waiting as my companions went to purchase waterproof waders at the Orvis store. We had already hiked through sewers in the Bronx, slept in a basement boiler room, passed a dusty evening in a train tunnel;

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is expressing alarm over reports that thousands of political separatists and captured Taliban insurgents have disappeared into the hands of Pakistan’s police and security forces, and that some may have been tortured or killed. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is expressing alarm over reports that thousands of political separatists and captured Taliban insurgents have disappeared into the hands of Pakistan’s police and security forces, and that some may have been tortured or killed. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

Sometimes, Katerina Varsou needs to work or needs a break from playing with her sons, Andreas, Nicholas and Constantine Oskiper, 7-year-old fraternal triplets. So she tells them to amuse themselves. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

Sometimes, Katerina Varsou needs to work or needs a break from playing with her sons, Andreas, Nicholas and Constantine Oskiper, 7-year-old fraternal triplets. So she tells them to amuse themselves. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

This year, my favorite Christmas story involves Rachel Maddow’s mother. “A friend gave her a remote control for the Christmas tree,” said Maddow. It was the best present ever, liberation from a lifetime of crawling under the tree every morning and night to put in or pull out the plug. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

This year, my favorite Christmas story involves Rachel Maddow’s mother. “A friend gave her a remote control for the Christmas tree,” said Maddow. It was the best present ever, liberation from a lifetime of crawling under the tree every morning and night to put in or pull out the plug. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

The Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” canceled its two Wednesday performances to test a new safety plan for the show’s 38 aerial and stage maneuvers, which involve actors hoisted or tethered in harnesses, including the maneuver that failed at Monday night’s performance when a stunt actor fell more than 20 feet and broke

It’s a cold day and you have just finished a grueling session at the gym, sweating away on an elliptical cross-trainer. Or you had a tough workout in the swimming pool. Or in a spin class. Or you just finished a hard run or a long, fast bicycle ride. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

For nearly 60 years the portrait of a baby-faced Philip IV by Velázquez hung in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s European paintings galleries, a stunning example of the only 110 or so known canvases by that 17th-century Spanish master. Majestic in size, it was rare in its depiction of a young, uncertain monarch and was the earliest known

It’s a cold day and you have just finished a grueling session at the gym, sweating away on an elliptical cross-trainer. Or you had a tough workout in the swimming pool. Or in a spin class. Or you just finished a hard run or a long, fast bicycle ride. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

For nearly 60 years the portrait of a baby-faced Philip IV by Velázquez hung in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s European paintings galleries, a stunning example of the only 110 or so known canvases by that 17th-century Spanish master. Majestic in size, it was rare in its depiction of a young, uncertain monarch and was the earliest known

For nearly 60 years the portrait of a baby-faced Philip IV by Velázquez hung in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s European paintings galleries, a stunning example of the only 110 or so known canvases by that 17th-century Spanish master. Majestic in size, it was rare in its depiction of a young, uncertain monarch and was the earliest known

As I was saying, the thing I love most about America is that there’s always somebody here who doesn’t get the word — and they go out and do the right thing or invent the new thing, no matter what’s going on politically or economically. And what could save America’s energy future — at a time when a fraudulent, anti-science campaign

WHAT is the winter solstice, and why bother to celebrate it, as so many people around the world will tomorrow? The word “solstice” derives from the Latin sol (meaning sun) and statum (stand still), and reflects what we see on the first days of summer and winter when, at dawn for two or three days, the sun seems to linger for several minutes

PARIS — Europe was slammed by new winter storms on Monday, forcing airlines to cancel or delay thousands of flights and further aggravating travelers after two days of snowy disruption that already had left many airplanes grounded. The repercussions were felt around the globe. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

WHAT is the winter solstice, and why bother to celebrate it, as so many people around the world will tomorrow? The word “solstice” derives from the Latin sol (meaning sun) and statum (stand still), and reflects what we see on the first days of summer and winter when, at dawn for two or three days, the sun seems to linger for several minutes

Never mind whether your date is smart or good-looking. How do you know you aren’t flirting with a felon? Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

Never mind whether your date is smart or good-looking. How do you know you aren’t flirting with a felon? Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

The Senate on Saturday blocked a bill that would have created a path to citizenship for certain young illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children, completed two years of college or military service and met other requirements, including passing a criminal background check. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

Never mind whether your date is smart or good-looking. How do you know you aren’t flirting with a felon? Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

Never mind whether your date is smart or good-looking. How do you know you aren’t flirting with a felon? Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

Never mind whether your date is smart or good-looking. How do you know you aren’t flirting with a felon? Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

Never mind whether your date is smart or good-looking. How do you know you aren’t flirting with a felon? Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

The Senate on Saturday blocked a bill that would have created a path to citizenship for certain young illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children, completed two years of college or military service and met other requirements, including passing a criminal background check. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

The Senate on Saturday blocked a bill that would have created a path to citizenship for certain illegal immigrant students who came to the United States as children, completed two years of college or military service and met other requirements, including passing a criminal background check. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

Suppose the unthinkable happened, and terrorists struck New York or another big city with an atom bomb. What should people there do? The government has a surprising new message: Do not flee. Get inside any stable building and don’t come out till officials say it’s safe. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

Se acabó el periplo de Carmen Sevilla en Cine de Barrio. Según publica FórmulaTV, la veterana actriz grabó el pasado lunes 13 de diciembre su último programa en los estudios de Prado del Rey de TVE. Sin embargo, según esta fuente, lo mejor llega a la hora de conocer los motivos que han llevado a la

TVE ha cancelado una de sus mayores apuestas 'Las chicas de oro' y ha sido para bien. El pasado lunes día 13 de diciembre de 2010, la pública programó una tv-movie bastante mediocre, 'El enigma de Jerusalén', y no sólo mejoró los datos de la ficción protagonizada por Concha Velasco si no que

Malos tiempos para el que fuese el 'Rey Midas' de la tv. El productor José Luis Moreno ha visto como una de sus grandes apuestas de la temporada, 'Las chicas de oro', ha sido retirada de la parrilla de TVE por su poca audiencia. Además, el empresario tiene deudas con proveedores, administraciones públicas y varias demandas

There is a conceit, especially popular among the press corps, that the salvation of America depends exclusively on self-described moderates and centrists. If there’s a path out of gridlock and insolvency, this theory goes, it can’t be charted by consistent conservatives or liberals. Instead, the nation needs the leadership of ideologically

QOSH, Iraq — A new wave of Iraqi Christians has fled to northern Iraq or abroad amid a campaign of violence against them and growing fear that the country’s security forces are unable or, more ominously, unwilling to protect them. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

There is a conceit, especially popular among the press corps, that the salvation of America depends exclusively on self-described moderates and centrists. If there’s a path out of gridlock and insolvency, this theory goes, it can’t be charted by consistent conservatives or liberals. Instead, the nation needs the leadership of ideologically

Like it or not — and I don’t — the Obama-McConnell tax-cut deal, with its mixture of very bad stuff and sort-of-kind-of good stuff, is likely to pass Congress. Then what? Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

After World War II, American counterintelligence recruited former Gestapo officers, SS veterans and Nazi collaborators to an even greater extent than had been previously disclosed and helped many of them avoid prosecution or looked the other way when they escaped, according to thousands of newly declassified documents ... Lea el artículo

Mientras España bailaba las alegres melodías de Concha Velasco y los Hippy-Loyas, Estados Unidos se 'colocaba' con las canciones de Jim Morrison y su grupo The Doors ... El documental, narrado por Johnny Depp, se adentra en la dimensión mitológica de The Doors y, sobre todo, de Jim Morrison, encantador y permanentemente 'puesto' de LSD

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s compromise with Republicans on extending tax cuts for the wealthy, which his self-described progressive critics see as a profound betrayal, is bound to intensify a debate that has been bubbling up on liberal blogs and e-mail lists in recent weeks — whether or not the president who embodied “hope and change”

The puzzles look easy, and mostly they are. Given three words — “trip,” “house” and “goal,” for example — find a fourth that will complete a compound word with each. A minute or so of mental trolling (housekeeper, goalkeeper, trip?) is all it usually takes. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

For a long time, the contours of America’s culture war seemed relatively straightforward. On one side was the country’s growing educated class, who tended to be secular, permissive and favorably disposed to the sexual revolution. On the other side were the social conservatives of middle America — benighted yahoos or virtuous yeomen,

PRINCETON, N.J. — In most American schools, teachers are evaluated by principals or other administrators who drop in for occasional classroom visits and fill out forms to rate their performance. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

WASHINGTON — In a classic case of shutting the barn door after the horse has left, the Obama administration and the Department of Defense have ordered the hundreds of thousands of federal employees and contractors not to view the secret cables and other classified documents published by Wikileaks and news organizations around the world unless

CLEARWATER, Fla. — When John Ditullio goes on trial on Monday, jurors will not see the large swastika tattooed on his neck. Or the crude insult tattooed on the other side of his neck. Or any of the other markings he has acquired since being jailed on charges related to a double stabbing that wounded a woman and killed a teenager in 2006

Their world had been rocked, and the questions came fast and furious: A 31-year-old teacher from Midtown Manhattan who had barely touched a banana in six years wanted to know if she could really consume them with impunity. A small-business owner from TriBeCa wondered whether she was being nudged to part with that second (or third) glass of

MADRID — Spain declared a “state of alarm” on Saturday for the first time since returning to democracy in response to a wildcat strike by air traffic controllers that had closed air traffic at the start of one of the year’s biggest holiday weekends. The controllers began returning to work for their afternoon shifts, but air travel

LOS ANGELES — With a sly hipness that is the trademark of Joel and Ethan Coen, a billboard just outside the Melrose Avenue gate at Paramount Pictures promotes their next film, “True Grit,” with a promise: “Retribution. This Christmas.” Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

PRINCETON, N.J. — In most American schools, teachers are evaluated by principals or other administrators who drop in for occasional classroom visits and fill out forms to rate their performance. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

PRINCETON, N.J. — In most American schools, teachers are evaluated by principals or other administrators who drop in for occasional classroom visits and fill out forms to rate their performance. Lea el artículo completo en www.nytimes.com

Their world had been rocked, and the questions came fast and furious: A 31-year-old teacher from Midtown Manhattan who had barely touched a banana in six years wanted to know if she could really consume them with impunity. A small-business owner from TriBeCa wondered whether she was being nudged to part with that second (or third) glass of

Scientists said Thursday that they had trained a bacterium to eat and grow on a diet of arsenic, in place of phosphorus — one of six elements considered essential for life — opening up the possibility that organisms could exist elsewhere in the universe or even here on Earth using biochemical powers we have not yet dared to dream about