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...Pathfinder's rover was a toy-size machine. Barely 30 cm high and 60 cm long and weighing just under 11 kg, it operated for three months and in all that time toddled across a stretch of Martian terrain little bigger than a football field. The new rovers are much closer to true space cars. Measuring 1.5 m tall from their wheels to the top of their camera masts, the 2003 models weigh about 180 kg each and should be able to cover up to 915 m in their 90 days of life - including many days they will spend standing...
...longtime ally/rival and euroskeptic-in-chief Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Downing St. had to promise a specific date for the decision - June 9 - and declare that other, pro-euro Cabinet ministers would get their say too, as long as they first digested 2,500 pages - 15 kg - of economic analysis. And so a bold move that could have boosted the whole European econ-omy has been buried, at least for now. Officially, the decision will hinge on whether the euro passes five economic tests hastily devised in the back of a Washington taxi by Brown...
...current economic malaise. meanwhile in the u.k. ... A Sweet Deal The Cadbury company has a new promotion called Get Active, in which the firm donates sports equipment to schools in exchange for chocolate wrappers. To earn a free basketball, enterprising children have to collect 170 wrappers - about 8.3 kg-worth of chocolate. They'd have to play basketball for 90 hours to work that off. Cadbury said it wasn't trying to encourage kids to eat more chocolate, just to save more wrappers...
...least 20 suspected Taliban fighters at a base in the Haba Mountains, according to Gul Agha Sherzai, the Kandahar governor. When a special - forces patrol came under fire in the Torghar Mountains, air support was called in, and an estimated 40 Taliban fighters were pounded with 16,000 kg of explosives, according to a U.S. military spokesman...
...social-welfare programs, converting them from political patronage rackets to engines of economic growth. Zero Hunger, says Graziano, "is meant most to raise the productive capacity of poor Brazilians." It includes churches, NGOs and, significantly, the private sector: Nestlé of Brazil, for example, will donate 1 million kg of food and 248 small homes to the program this year. Graziano concedes that Lula will stand or fall on this issue when he faces re-election in 2006; but he declined to pinpoint a gauge for success. Still, says Walder de Goes, a prominent political analyst in Bras...