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See a sample reprint in PDF format.Order a reprint of this article nowOPINIONNOVEMBER 4, 2010Republicans Won Bigger Than You ThinkThe GOP will have operational control of the Senate more often than Majority Leader Harry Reid will. ArticleCommentsmore in Opinion »BY FRED BARNES

Republicans are better off after their landslide victory in the midterm election than even they imagine. Democrats are worse off. This situation could change quickly, but chances are it won't.

For starters, Republicans will continue to have issues on their side. The election reaffirmed that America is a center-right country and that a sizeable majority is anxious about government spending and debt, President Obama's health-care plan, and jobs. Those issues won't go away now that Republicans control the House and are in a strong minority position in the Senate.

Republicans have the ability to block Mr. Obama's agenda, whatever it ...

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Pelosi's decision: What will her new role in Congress be? - USA Today

By William M. Welch, USA TODAYNancy Pelosi, the first woman to serve as speaker of the House, faces a decision: whether to seek to return to her old job as leader of the Democratic minority.Easily re-elected by voters in her heavily Democratic district in San Francisco, Pelosi could instead decide to step away from Congress where she has served for a quarter century, now that she no longer commands a House majority.

After a grueling campaign in which Republicans around the country demonized her as the face of a liberal Democratic Party, retirement at age 70 might seem an appealing option.

Pelosi could also take a third course: serving out her new two-year term as a House member, but not seeking a leadership post in the Democratic caucus.

Her immediate predecessor, former House speaker Dennis Hastert, opted to return to Congress as a rank-and-file Republican— outside the leadership — after voters handed Democrats and Pelosi majority control of the House four years ago. Hastert returned to private life in 2007, resigning his Illinois-based House seat halfway through his term.

Pelosi kept quiet about her plans in advance of this week's elections, saying she expected Democrats to retain the majority. Now that they have lost it, she has scheduled an interview with ABC News for Wednesday night.

"The outcome of the election does not diminish the work we have done for the American people," Pelosi said in a statement on election night as the size of the Democrats' loss became clear. "We must all strive to find common ground to support the middle class, create jobs, reduce the deficit and move our nation forward."

Some Democratic House members, including Rep. Heath Shuler of North Carolina, had warned they might not support her for another leadership term next year. Shuler won his third term on Tuesday.

Martin Frost, a former Democratic House member from Texas, says that was all bluster, adding Pelosi could return to the minority leader's post if she wants too. He noted that the longest-serving House speaker, Sam Rayburn, spent two brief periods with Democrats in the minority, 1947-48 and 1953-54 while maintaining his leadership post. After both terms in the minority, Rayburn regained the speaker's position when his party returned to the majority. He served as speaker for a total of 17 years.

The question, though, is would Pelosi want to do that — and would her Democratic colleagues want it as well.

"It's her call," said Frost, who lost to Pelosi in 2002 in the race for Democratic leader. "She might decide this is enough. I can't see an effective challenge (within the House Democratic caucus) to her."

Frost says that in Pelosi's four years as speaker of the House, she proved among the most effective to hold the post and helped President Obama win passage of the massive health care law, an $814 billion economic stimulus package and other goals.

Frost also credits her with how she handled becoming the target of Republican attacks in districts far from her own, and says Republicans found in her — a woman representing liberal San Francisco — an easy target.

"Part of this is because she's a woman," Frost says. "I don't think they could have done this to a male speaker. There are a lot of people who were not happy to have a woman in a position of leadership."

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NASA moon impact blasted into material that's 5% water - Ars Technica

About a year ago, NASA held a press conference to describe the preliminary results of its analysis of the LCROSS experiment, in which a spent rocket stage plowed into the Cabeus crater at the Moon's south pole. As the impact took place, there was no visible debris plume, but NASA captured it in the UV and IR portions of the spectrum, and was able to announce that there were "significant quantities" of water seen in the debris. Now that the dust has long since settled, a total of six papers and a perspective that describe the results have appeared in Science.

One of the papers describes the impact site in the Cabeus Crater, and other polar craters like it, based on thermal data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The shaded areas near the craters' walls, which never receive sunlight, should in theory be exceptionally cold, with the only heat coming from radiation by the opposing, sunlit crater wall. An LRO instrument confirms that this is actually the case, producing estimates that these "cold traps" are hovering only 38K above absolute zero.

"Temperatures in the Moon’s larger cold traps are closer to those expected for the poles of Pluto than for Earth’s closest neighbor," the authors conclude.

All of which made Cabeus a great choice to crash a rocket into, since temperatures that cold mean that relatively volatile compounds, including water, don't sublimate (go directly from solid to gaseous form) at appreciable rates, even if no atmosphere is present.

And, as NASA first announced, the infrared instrument that followed the rocket in picked up evidence of water in the impact plume. The new data analysis now goes a long way towards telling us how much is there by estimating both the total size of the plume and the percentage of water in it.

As a separate paper describes it, the debris plume actually became visible in stages. First up was mineral material, the dust and rocks blasted out of the crater by the impact itself. By 30 seconds after impact, however, this material had started to fall back towards the lunar surface, after which the spectrum of the debris cloud became dominated by materials in gaseous form, such as vaporized water. The instrument was also able to estimate the total size of the cloud, which was essential for figuring out the volume of material blasted free by the impact.

Running the numbers, the scientists concluded that the surface material in Cabeus is between five and six percent water, with most of that in the form of pure ice covered by a protective layer of dust. The results confirm that the signal doesn't arise from water incorporated into a mineral, or from compounds like aluminum hydroxide. All told, several hundred kilograms of water were liberated during the LCROSS impact.

Water wasn't the only volatile compound that showed up in the data, however. Signals corresponded to various organic species, including carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and various nitrogen and sulfur bonds. And, in a bit of a surprise, hydrogen seems to have been present in its molecular form (a neutral H2 molecule). Presumably, it's absorbed onto the surface of a mineral in the lunar material. Roughly 140kg of hydrogen was blasted free by the impact—by weight, that's more than the magnesium present.

The infrared instrument also may have picked up signs of sodium and silver, while a UV instrument on the LRO mission found signs of mercury, calcium, and magnesium.

All in all, these are pretty significant results. Some of the earlier hints of water on the Moon were consistent with the water being produced as protons are delivered to the Moon's surface by the solar wind. The significant quantities of other volatiles seem to suggest something more complex is going on; "Going by the evolving spectra, the impact released a variety of volatiles besides water, which suggests a variety of possible sources besides solar wind implantation," the authors of one paper conclude. These possible sources would include delivery of material via comets and a more active surface chemistry than anyone expected.

A perspective that describes all of these results suggests that we probably won't learn much more about how these materials got there without going to see them in their native state ourselves. And that's looking a bit more manageable. Assuming we can keep the water free of the mercury that's also present and deal with Pluto-level temperatures, then there should be useful quantities of water present in Cabeus and other cold sinks.

Science, 2010. DOI: 10.1126/science.330.6003.434  (About DOIs).

(The DOI link is for the perspective, which contains references for the other papers.)

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