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...though no less worrying?developments. Serious criticism of the government is now strongly discouraged: Te-helka.com, an online investigative-media outlet that managed to film several officials taking bribes, was shut down, and a systematic campaign of harassment let loose against its employees and investors. Individual Hindus have employed strong-arm tactics against Christian missionaries and burned down churches. And school history textbooks have been rewritten to depict India's medieval history as a long saga of unending Muslim barbarism. As Neeladri Bhattacharya, professor of modern Indian history at Jawaharlal Nehru University, noted in an article published last year, so inaccurate...
...thing Spirit won't have to travel far to explore is rocks. There's a whole quarry's worth of loose samples littering the Gusev floor, possibly carried there by river water or even glaciers. The rover is equipped with a robotic arm that includes two spectrometers for analyzing chemical and mineral composition, a microscopic imager and, most usefully for rock work, a miniature drill. "This thing's like a big Swiss Army knife," says Squyres...
Something the scientists do know is that once Spirit has its wheels in the dirt, it's going to act fast. Almost immediately, it will extend its robotic arm and begin sampling the soil directly in front of it. This will allow it both to calibrate its instruments and get the data flow streaming back to Earth. The Apollo astronauts used to do something similar, spending their first moments on the moon collecting what they called a contingency sample--a clump of lunar soil and rock they would tuck into a spacesuit pocket so they would have something to show...
...done with its boss on trial for six months?—By Charles P. Wallace Hiring And Firing Adecco, the Swiss-based world-leading temp-staffing firm, announced the resignation of its chief financial officer and its head of U.S. operations following the disclosure of accounting problems at its American arm. U.S. regulators are investigating...
Sophomore guard Jess Holsey managed to see playing time despite a brace covering most of her left upper arm. Holsey dislocated her shoulder in practice earlier this season and had problems with it last season which forced her to sit out several games...