Just as Mars -- a desert planet -- gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.

CNN: Commentary: Let's aim for Mars

They point out that first-year salaries often have no bearing on earnings later in life.

WSJ: Are Bachelor's Degrees Worth It?

"Four years of hard work on, Skills for Life is really bearing fruit, and having a positive effect on the lives of learners, " Ms Kelly said said.

BBC: Adult education class

Living a good Christian life "means bearing witness to the love which inspires us to lay own our lives in the service of others, and thus to counter ways of thinking which justify taking innocent lives, " he said.

CNN: Pope urges respect for women during Mass in Jordan

However, she said, it might have no bearing on longer-term chronic rejection, which reduces the life of the transplanted organ.

BBC: Advance could boost kidney transplants

It's on ThinkSecret, which means, of course, that we can't verify the information or its source, but now the rumor on top of the pile for things we might see at Macworld in January is that the Mac mini will be given a second life as a Front Row 2.0-bearing digital media hub complete with DVR features.

ENGADGET: The new Mac mini -- with Front Row 2.0 and DVR?

In one section, long ear-lobed Khmer soldiers bearing spears and shields march over a battlefield under the command of their larger-than-life-sized king.

BBC: Piecing together puzzles in Cambodia