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...probe comes in two parts: an orbiter that will stay aloft to conduct atmospheric studies and a lander that will descend to the surface. Dubbed Beagle 2, after Charles Darwin's famous specimen-collecting ship, the lander is only 3 ft. wide when packed for flight, but on the ground it will open like a flower and deploy an impressive array of equipment. Among the instruments are a drill capable of digging 5 ft. below the surface, 12 ovens that can heat samples to some 1,600şF to generate carbon dioxide and a mass spectrometer to identify carbon isotopes, along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Destination Mars | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

...microbial fossil, that would settle the question. But even NASA acknowledges that when it comes to searching for life, the Europeans have the edge this time. The esa probe comes in two parts: an orbiter that will stay aloft to conduct atmospheric studies and a lander that will descend to the surface. Dubbed Beagle 2, after Charles Darwin's famous specimen-collecting ship, the lander is only 91 cm wide when packed for flight, but on the ground it will open like a flower and deploy an impressive array of equipment. Among the instruments are a drill capable of digging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Destination Mars | 6/8/2003 | See Source »

...overcrowding at the four Houses with hot breakfasts as reasons to re-evaluate the limited breakfast plan. To protest the changes, they drafted a petition and even went so far as to organize a two-morning “eat-in,” in which they planned to descend en masse upon the “hot” Houses. But while the petition boasted 900 signatures, the eat-in drew only a modest turnout...

Author: By Nalina Sombuntham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hold The Eggs | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

Hordes of hungry parents and their graduated progeny descend on Square restaurants this week. This much we know. If you are keen to avoid the hundreds of other newly crowned Harvard grads enjoying lunch out courtesy of their parents’ Amex, but still want to enjoy a good old fashioned bite at your folks’ expense—sans the crowds—the Four Seasons in Boston may have just the thing to celebrate those two new letters after your name. In the finest tradition of the genteel English high tea, the haute cuisine gurus at Boston?...

Author: By Mollie H. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Height of Elegance | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

Three of the nation’s top 64 women’s tennis programs will descend upon Cambridge this weekend to join Harvard in the opening rounds of the NCAA National Championship tournament...

Author: By Sean W. Coughlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Tennis Set For Tourney | 5/9/2003 | See Source »

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