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It was the very same feeling, he said later, as when he had first seen carpet tiles, but orders of magnitude larger.
ECONOMIST: Ray Anderson
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Amidst frantic manoeuvring on Thursday, the Conservatives put down amendments to the Crown and Courts Bill which would use the measure to set up the prime minister's preferred system of press regulation - paving the way for another cross-coalition confrontation of the kind first seen in January, when the two parties opposed one another over the review of parliamentary boundaries.
BBC: Week ahead
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The reason for the excitement is that, although the existence of ice on Mars has been known since 1666, when the planet's polar caps were first seen, the low temperatures and air pressure there mean that water, even if heavily salted, is likely either to freeze or to evaporate.
ECONOMIST: Water on Mars