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...glimpses of the wider wizarding world. When Harry visits Mr. Weasley's offices at the Ministry of Magic, he's treated to the greatest elevator ride since Willy Wonka, an adventure he shares with a fire-breathing chicken and a flock of bewitched purple paper airplanes, official Ministry memos en route to their recipients. "Level three, Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes...
With breezes gusting up to 17 knots, Harvard executed a 61-point turnaround, and ended the second day of racing up 48 points, en route to the nearly 70-point blowout of second-place Hawaii...
...American lives. U.S. forces come under attack every day in Iraq, and they have suffered combat casualties at a rate upward of one death every other day. Six British MPs were killed near Basra on Tuesday and eight were wounded in a second incident; a U.S. Marine was killed en route to help ambushed comrades Wednesday; two U.S. troops were reported missing overnight Thursday in Baghdad, and later in the day Centcom announced that a Special Operations soldier had been killed and eight wounded by hostile fire during an operation southwest of Baghdad. Two Iraqis employed to help restore Baghdad...
...want to get as close to infinity as possible." This is getting easier all the time, as high-speed Internet access gets cheaper and computer processor power continues to double every 16 months. Meanwhile, the software tools for spamming continue to improve. Web crawlers harvest e-mail addresses en masse from chat rooms and newsgroups. Dictionary-attack programs string together words or names in multiple languages, random numbers, an "@" and the names of common mail servers. Presto: millions of likely e-mail addresses...
...planet so close to ours, Mars has proved strangely inhospitable to earthly visitors. Of the 33 missions to the Red Planet since 1960, 22 have crashed, broken up en route or otherwise failed before they could complete their research. Undaunted, earthlings are launching yet another assault on Mars this month, when no fewer than three spacecraft--two from NASA, one from the European Space Agency (ESA)--will take flight. If they deliver on even part of their promise, the missions could go a long way toward explaining the history, geology and--most intriguing--biology of Mars...