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...Discovery is based today. Then in 1985, at a time when the TV documentary had been written off as an idea past its prime, he enlisted the moral support of Walter Cronkite (whom he cold-called) and the financial muscle of media-investment firm Allen & Co. to help him launch the Discovery Channel. About his penchant for gambles, Hendricks, who owns 3% of the company, says, "Sometimes you need a little naive confidence...
...astronauts who perished represent the best that humankind has to offer, yet few of us knew their names before this disaster. Why didn't we stop for a moment before the Columbia's launch to celebrate this brave and diverse group of space pioneers? Why couldn't we spare a moment of prime-time television to have our highest public officials introduce these role models to our youth? It was a lost opportunity. Only after their deaths do we celebrate their lives. FRED POLITINSKY Wayne...
Eight-year-old Jay Unthong's mother was the first casualty in Thailand's war on drugs. She died just after midnight on Feb. 1, moments after the launch of a three-month government campaign to rid the country of narcotics. Jay's parents were small-time dealers in their village of Ban Rai, in western Ratchaburi province. His mother, Yupin, was reportedly on a police blacklist. Her husband, Boonchuay, spent 18 months in jail for possession of amphetamine pills, known in Thai as ya ba, or crazy medicine. On Jan. 31, the family spent the evening playing fairground games...
...with a resolution some 40 times as sharp as COBE's, WMAP has plenty to say. (The W was added last week in honor of David Wilkinson, the Princeton physicist who helped launch the project but died last summer.) "It's a lot like matching fingerprints," says Spergel. "We ran computer simulations based on many different values for all of the numbers, generated patterns for each and found the one that best matched what we actually...
...conduct until now suggests that he is well aware that his best weapons against the U.S. military are political and diplomatic. Every time he has been presented with an "or-else" ultimatum in this particular crisis, Saddam has capitulated so as to avoid giving the U.S. a pretext to launch an attack. Despite his defiant tone on CBS, reports out of Baghdad this week quoted Iraqi officials as hinting that Saddam may be planning to sacrifice the al-Samoud 2 to slow President Bush's march...