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On the midnight-to-0200 watch, Radon, anchored off Gabba, monitors instruments and prepares a chart for the next journey. The Torres Strait is a difficult stretch to chart, sometimes requiring 60 wavepoints (or map references) on a single passage. On a radar screen, what appears to be a barge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Hot Pursuit | 7/29/2004 | See Source »

It would be another quarter of a million years before the first humans set eyes on the crater. During that time, sand blown on the desert winds filled most of the crater's depth, although its bottom still lies 25 m below the level of the surrounding plain. For thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmic Dreaming | 7/29/2004 | See Source »

Early morning and the temperature is already creeping into the 30s. A brisk breeze coming off the plains feels like a fan-forced oven. But there's no wind 60 m below, where the flat bowl of the crater is still and stifling, almost steamy from the moisture trapped in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmic Dreaming | 7/29/2004 | See Source »

Cavers joke that Tasmania is almost hollow, a speleologist's paradise with as much wilderness to explore below ground as above. But while caves are plentiful, caves containing rock art are not. That's why the location of this cave is so closely guarded: since it was found in 2002...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Tunnel | 7/29/2004 | See Source »

Down below, in the occupied floors, the building will incorporate a whole spectrum of new, post-9/11 defensive features. Exit stairways will be wider and will open directly onto the street. There will be dedicated stairwells for use by fire fighters. Air filters will block chemical or biological agents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Tall Orders | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

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