Word: darwins
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...some brash NASA spacecraft, but to a quirky British-built pod assembled by a shaggy-haired English egghead. The British space program hasn't had a leading role since James Bond went into orbit in Moonraker. But in June a small, unmanned pod named Beagle 2 (after Charles Darwin's famous ship) has a chance to change all that. Masterminded by Professor Colin Pillinger, an eccentric and exuberant planetary scientist at Britain's remote learning Open University, the Beagle is on track to beat the mighty NASA program, which is set to send its next Mars probe at about...
...course, risks. Mars has been exceptionally hostile to visitors: fewer than 10 of the 31 missions to the planet have succeeded. But if any of these missions can break the jinx, they might unravel a bewitching mystery. And if the little pod called Beagle takes the prize, somewhere Charles Darwin will be smiling...
...shoot it much more simply," he says. "If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances." In the final cut, he excised the most indulgent scene of the movie--a long, violent fight between Aristotle and Charles Darwin--even though it meant having to take Nicolas Cage, who plays Kaufman, out to dinner. "Nicolas said it would never make the movie, and I couldn't even believe he was thinking this," Jonze says. He's even earnest about his absurdity...
...would sometimes block the line for days. Once, a train was stranded in the middle of the outback for two weeks; the driver shot wild goats to feed the passengers. Even construction of the rest of the line?originally intended to link the South Australian capital of Adelaide to Darwin in the north?has been held up. Work on the southern section started in 1878, only to reach halfway across the continent at Alice Springs 50 years later. And Darwin is still waiting for the first train to arrive. But not for much longer: the 1,420-kilometer section from...
Members of the Chorus of the Boston Cecilia, of which Gould had been a member, opened the ceremony with an anthem composed for the 1882 internment of Charles Darwin in Westminster Abbey...