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LOVE FROM LONDON Robyn Hitchcock (Southbound) If Syd Barrett had been slightly less crazy and a tad more of a diamond, would he have joined a 2008 polar expedition to highlight global warming accompanied by Jarvis Cocker Because prolific oddball Robyn Hitchcock did.
Over my morning coffee , I read the news this week that a battle is brewing between Starbucks and McDonald’s. According to the story, McDonald’s is planning to capitalize on the public’s willingness to pay $4 for a cup of coffee by hiring baristas and dropping espresso machines in 14,000 of their fast-food outlets.
He was the most famous polar bear in the world — the cuddly cub Knut, dubbed Cute Knut, captured people’s hearts after his birth at the Berlin Zoo in December 2006. So it’s no wonder that his sudden death on Saturday, at the tender age of 4, has sent a nation into mourning — and sparked a controversial debate on the ethics of keeping polar bears in captivity.
NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander began sending photos of the planet’s surface on the first day of its three-month mission "to taste and sniff the northern polar site’s soil and ice," the space agency said. The first pictures, which the lander began taking shortly after touching down near Mars’ north pole — the end of a 422 million-mile trek — showed a pattern of brown polygons as far as the camera could see