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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Between the Lines With Charles C. Mann | 8/17/2005 | See Source »

...CM: What Columbus landed on were these very, very populous islands [in] the Caribbean, which were just jammed with people-very heavily populated agricultural societies with most of the place covered with farms. Soon after, people came to central Mexico, which was then possibly the most heavily populated place on earth, ruled by this very aggressive, rapidly expanding empire. That's what's normally called the Aztecs. There were all of these other societies. There were these large Mayan states that were basically in the Yucatan...Soon after that, [the explorers] went to Peru, and there was the Inca Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Between the Lines With Charles C. Mann | 8/17/2005 | See Source »

...unharmed. There are at least 25 dings on its underside, including one near the nose, where temperatures can climb dangerously high ?FOAM DEBRIS The biggest chunk was 2 to 3 ft. wide (0.6 to 0.9 m), about 1 ft. long (0.3 m) and up to 8 in. (20 cm) thick; it probably weighed 0.9 lbs. (0.4 kg), about half the size of the piece that downed Columbia ?THE TROUBLESOME RAMP Most of the falling bits came from the so-called PAL ramp, a ridge of hand-sprayed foam designed to protect fuel lines from buffeting on takeoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why NASA Can't Get It Right | 8/1/2005 | See Source »

...FOAM -- 1 in. (2.5 cm) ?Fuel ?Aluminum casing ?Epoxy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why NASA Can't Get It Right | 8/1/2005 | See Source »

...Solar Birdbath For your feathered friends, this backyard fountain needs neither wires nor transformers; it's powered by the sun. Copper with a 46-cm bowl; $179 from gardeners.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gear for the Garden | 7/18/2005 | See Source »

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