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...Greek texts of Mark and John, then wrote his own narrative in Three Gospels (1996). We asked Price, a prolific novelist (Kate Vaiden, the trilogy A Great Circle, Roxanna Slade and the forthcoming children's novel A Perfect Friend), to take another look at episodes in Jesus' life and craft a new Gospel based on the historical evidence and his reading of the Bible. He adds a chapter in which his erudition and imagination take a leap into an unexplored moment after Christ's Resurrection...
...silence is deafening: Two days after the Mars Polar Lander was supposed to have touched down and started sending back signals from the Red Planet's south pole, and still there is no word. The possibilities: The craft could have gone into a protective sleep mode after impact, and has so far missed its window of opportunity for transmission back to Earth. It's also conceivable that the probe landed on its side, making a clear transmission path even more difficult. The possibility that NASA doesn't want to think about yet is that the craft didn't survive...
...That would be a devastating setback for the agency's ambitious program of sending a lander and an obiter craft to Mars every 26 months. The failure of another $100 million probe just months after the Mars Climate Orbiter was lost as a result of the now-infamous metric mixup could mean an entire rethinking of NASA's "faster, better, cheaper" strategy, and threaten congressional support for the whole Mars project. Already the criticisms have begun: That scientists were lulled by the easy success of the Pathfinder mission into launching a much less adaptable probe that needed everything...
...could tell, the second of their two $100 million Martian landers didn't get lost in space. All indications were that the Mars Polar Lander enjoyed a safe touchdown at right around its scheduled landing time, 3:01 p.m. EST. But NASA failed to receive a signal from the craft during the first 20-minute communications window, beginning around 3:40 p.m. The Lander is the partner craft to the Mars Climate Observer, which was famously lost near Mars after scientists had a mixup between the U.S. and metric measuring systems. This time, a NASA spokesman called the landing "flawless...
...intended, the only thing pushing the plot is relentless coincidence--a movie this implausible shouldn't be this dull--and a very aggressive score that tells you what you would have felt if the film (from the director of The Sweet Hereafter) had been made with more passion and craft. Only Hoskins rises above the dankness. His malevolence is fastidious, wistful; he's a sadist with a schoolboy's heart...