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Both rovers make the most of their size, carrying a full load of instruments, many of them attached to an agile mobile arm. A thermal-emission spectrometer will study background radiation for clues to rock composition; another spectrometer will look for minerals and iron; a third will emit X rays and alpha particles, which will also reveal what rocks are made of. More dramatic, a rock-abrasion tool equipped with diamond-tipped grinding wheels will gouge samples open...
...samples and elsewhere promises to be considerable. In addition to the four cameras perched at the top of the mast, two in front will help the vehicles go where they need to, and two in back will help them steer. Most impressive, a microscopic imager on the robot arm will do close-up work, squinting deep into rocks to study their texture. "This thing's got eyeballs all over the place," says Squyres...
...another hazard - about 35,000 tons of chemical munitions sunk by the Russians near Bornholm and the Swedish island of Gotland, west of Latvia, in the late 1940s. More - sealed on German warships - was sunk by Britain and the U.S. in the deep waters of the Skagerrak, an arm of the North Sea, and in the Norwegian Sea. Over time, some of the weapons in the relatively shallow Baltic - blister agents (such as sulfur mustard), tear gas and other chemical irritants once the property of Nazi Germany - have lost their casings, leached into the sea and been caught in fishing...
...militants who share al-Qaeda's ideology, the target of the bombing was a natural one. For years, jihadists have reviled the U.N. as an arm of world infidelity. They have depicted the organization as a tool America relied on to allow the slaughter of Muslims in Bosnia and to kill innocent Iraqis through the sanctions that were Saddam's punishment for noncompliance with U.N. resolutions. Islamist militants had already tried once to bomb U.N. headquarters. That 1993 effort grew from the same jihadist circle that provided the manpower for the first World Trade Center attack, which killed...
...necessary. But the financial and military burden of post-Saddam Iraq certainly raises the pressure on the administration to seek new agreements via the UN with allies currently reluctant to commit lives and treasure. Which suggests that this Fall, like the last one, will see the Bush administration arm-wrestling at the Security Council over its plans for Iraq...