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...DARKNESS Mercury's crater-pocked surface looks much like that of our moon. Its most prominent feature is the Caloris Basin, an 800-mile (1,300-km)-wide crater probably formed by an asteroid impact when the planet was still young. MESSENGER will provide the first picture of the whole basin, half of which was in darkness when the Mariner 10 probe flew by 30 years...
...Condingup one week, a farmer's lounge room the next. "What we are talking about is a revolution that involves identifying and energizing the gifts that are there within any community," says Bishop Wilmot. "This is what St. Paul and St. Barnabas discovered as they wandered around the Mediterranean basin." Murray's mission is to take the church to the people - even if those people are sheep farmers with 150-km-long road frontages. "We either go down that path," he says...
...cannot date the Jaru myth, but we can date the discovery of its factual underpinning very precisely, to 1947. Geologist Frank Reeves, then working for the Vacuum Oil Company, was conducting an aerial survey of the Canning Basin when he spotted the crater near Wolfe Creek. "He thought it was volcanic at first," says his daughter Peggy Reeves Sanday, "but was later able to confirm it was of meteoric origin." Sanday, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, grew up with stories about the crater but didn't visit it until 1999, when she learned tribal tales that were...
...Dordogne takes its name from the largest of three rivers that cross the region. Get an overview of the river basin from the village of Domme, improbably perched a few hundred meters up on a large limestone plateau; the pay-per-view telescopes there will keep the kids intrigued. Lower down at La Roque Gageac-a compact village at the foot of the sheer cliff face-you'll find medieval ramparts and natural caves that will wow budding geologists...
...food and building material. An adult can gnaw through a tree six inches in diameter in 15 minutes. In the Southeast, beavers cause millions of dollars of damage to timber forests every year. In 1999 a squad of bucktoothed renegades in Washington started toppling cherry trees along the Tidal Basin, putting at risk the annual Cherry Blossom Festival. (When the National Park Service relocated the colony to an undisclosed location, then Idaho Congresswoman Helen Chenoweth, a die-hard foe of reintroducing the wolf and grizzly in the West, demanded the Tidal Basin be declared "habitat critical to its well-being...