" Jobs and his college friend Daniel Kottke became vegetarians after reading " Diet for a Small Planet.
He took one of them, the science fiction political satire "Visit to a Small Planet, " and successfully adapted it for Broadway.
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Mr. LISSAUER: We believe this discovery of this small planet is a rock-solid discovery, even though the planet itself may or may not be solid rock.
This Earth Day, keep in mind that each of us affects everyone else on Earth, because we all share the land, the ocean and especially the air on what is proving to be a pretty small planet.
The rights of every individual, every man and every woman, are being restrained because States, and also large communities, have not yet found a way to live together on this small planet, showing each other the respect and consideration every human being deserves.
When the fate of our lands and waters has been cast into doubt, they have taken the long view that as Americans and as inhabitants of this one small planet, it is up to us to preserve our national heritage for our children, grandchildren, and for the generations to come.
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"Everything that we've discovered in the last few years tells us that where we find one small, rocky planet there are likely to be others, " he told BBC News.
But telling just how small a given planet is depends on a relative measurement: how much light there is when the planet is and is not in front of the host star.
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This planet appears to be small and rocky, a bit like Earth, but hardly, as NPR's Richard Harris reports, a vacation destination.
One set of small-scale sunshine-reduction experiments discussed in Asilomar would send plumes of various sulphurous fluids in the stratosphere to find out which would best produce a haze of small particles similar to those that cool the planet after a large volcanic eruption.
And some of them do strike our planet, though they tend to be small when they do and strike unpopulated areas on land or plunge into the world's oceans.
Further differentiating itself from our world's whirlwinds, this alien cyclone is locked to its planet's north pole and is fueled by small amounts of water vapor instead of an actual ocean.
The transit method for finding planets searches for the small drop in brightness of a star that occurs when a planet passes in front of it and blocks some of its light.
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Overall, the earth has about 136 years of copper but just a small proportion of it in Australia, which could supply the planet for only a few years, according to the U.S.G.
Last week an official panel recommended keeping Pluto as a planet and adding at least three, perhaps 40 more small objects.
In addition to making our cities more resilient, the health benefits, for both our bodies and our planet, of consuming food that is grown within a small number of miles of our homes or work places, are significant.
But he added that if you had a small star - as this one is - then a moderate-sized planet would block out enough light to be detected by telescopes.
And I think we continue to be heartened by progress that's being made in Congress to address how to make ourselves more energy independent and protect our planet, and how do we drive down the costs for families and small businesses struggling with the rising cost of health care.
When people think of the word planet, they think of large, special objects, and when you tell people about Pluto and make them realize that Pluto really is quite small, people even start to realize well, okay, maybe Pluto shouldn't be called a planet.
Despite being on a small scale so far, the problems have turned the spotlight towards 2018 -- when Russia will host the planet's biggest soccer spectacle, the World Cup.
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