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Their optimism was soon dashed. On the first day of flight, the astronauts tried to deploy a new instrument-pointing system (IPS), designed in West Germany, that aimed three of the onboard telescopes at celestial objects. The precision of the IPS is equivalent to focusing on a dime two miles away. The $60 million device, however, had bugs in its computer software and would not track properly. There was a brief moment when Astronomer-Astronaut Karl Henize shouted, "Hallelujah, it looks like it's working!" only to watch it wobble off target. Conceded Henize: "That hallelujah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Challenger's Agony and Ecstasy | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...crew crammed even more work into their already difficult round-the-clock schedule. An X-ray telescope zoomed in on the distant stellar clusters of Virgo and Centaurus, recording the precise contours of their massive radiation fields. Toward the other end of the electromagnetic spectrum, another telescope, an infrared instrument, mapped the invisible heat of the Milky Way. A small satellite called the plasma diagnostics package was suspended from the ship's giant remote arm to measure "ripples," or the wake that the shuttle causes in the earth's ionosphere. At several points, the shuttle fired its thrusters to poke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Challenger's Agony and Ecstasy | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...systematic starvation of the rebellious Ukraine in 1932-33 (10 million by Stalin's count) and Mao's catastrophic Great Leap Forward into prolonged famine in 1957-62 (at least 27 million). Uganda and Kampuchea have produced more recent evidence that Hitler's policy of mass murder as an instrument of statecraft was not unique. Yet the Final Solution remains the archetype of man's bestiality to man, and there are compelling reasons for this to be so. The villain: Hitler still seems the embodiment of melodramatic evil, a spellbinder sent from hell or central casting. The perpetrators: a civilized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Horror and the Pity SHOAH | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...evil and genius, which are, after all, not physical but cultural phenomena. The problem is one of categories. Was Lenin a genius? Who is to say? In another culture, perhaps, a case could be made that the brain of the man who introduced terror as a routine instrument of governance is to be studied for insights into criminality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: In Search of the Silver Bullet | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...they would sound with just the upright bass and guitar and snare drum? That's the sound I love the best. My sound is basically backbeat and Stratocaster guitar or an old Martin guitar. Playing with a synthesizer is not really as much fun as playing with an instrument. I guess those machines are for people who are more inclined to be visionaries, who imagine something and work it out. As opposed to people who carry it around with them. That's what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bob Dylan: It's All Right In Front | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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