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...Planet, seeking out conditions and features that might support life and radioing their findings back to earth across more than 90 million miles of space. A capsule ejected from Mars 2 lay on the Martian surface, possibly equipped with instruments that could sample the soil and the atmosphere and detect the presence of life. And a second Mars-bound Soviet spacecraft was closing in; it too was presumed to carry a capsule capable of making a soft landing...
...carrying air-to-ground Kennel missiles with a range of 50 miles. Washington maintained that in spite of these Badgers the Middle East arms balance had still not been upset. The Israelis thereupon complained that U.S. intelligence has erred on at least five prior occasions, including a failure to detect the initial Soviet missile movements into the Canal Zone when the ceasefire began last year...
...Cornell University's Planetary Studies Lab, suggested that the glaciers are frozen carbon dioxide (dry ice), the major constituent of the polar cap. Smith felt that dry ice would not flow like a glacier. "The only thing that does," he said, "is water." Mariner's instruments did detect water vapor in the atmosphere above the south polar cap, suggesting that it had risen from the ice below. Those readings encouraged scientists who still hope to find some form of ife, however rudimentary, on the desolate Martian surface...
...laws as unconstitutional?as it did, for example, with much New Deal legislation in the 1930s? Last year Burger and Blackmun voted to invalidate Congress's extension of voting rights to 18-year-olds before the constitutional amendment had passed. Even so, many students of the court detect an air of passivity in the new alignment and this suggests a seeming paradox: the court may not actively resist legislative initiatives...
...department chiefs than it is among new medical students and professors. The symptoms are easily recognized. In a typical case, the chief of a hospital service will examine a patient and announce that he hears, for instance, a heart murmur. None of the interns or residents accompanying him can detect it until the senior resident-who has much influence over the trainees' futures-announces: "I hear it." Then the disease spreads rapidly. One after another, the members of the chief's party will report that they too hear the murmur, often adding comments like "It's very...