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...know that game "Mousetrap," where a little marble careens through some crazy maze, tripping switches that makes levers drop, catapults launch, springs sproing, weights fall, and a little plastic mouse get trapped under a plastic yellow cage? Well, that was a fun game, and Jeunet and Caro's The City of Lost Children is the French translation...
PASADENA: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced plans to send an unmanned "rover" to Mars at the end of the year, the first sign of NASA's interest in the Red Planet since it lost contact with its billion-dollar Observer spaceship in 1993. NASA plans to launch its Pathfinder mission next December 2, 1996. If it lands on Mars as planned on July 4, 1997, it would be the first time since two Viking missions landed there in 1976. "Mars has always had this romantic hold on us," says TIME aerospace correspondent Jerry Hannifin...
...Institute of Politics (IOP) plans to launch Youth Vote '96, its effort to bring 12 million people between the ages of 18 and 24 to the polls on election day, with a conference held at Harvard later this month...
...Juan Garcia Abrego, one of Mexico's most powerful drug dealers, was inside. At 7 p.m., the team moved in. They smashed through the front gate in a minivan, taking Garcia Abrego and two bodyguards by surprise. As the druglord dashed out a back door and tried to launch his portly frame over a fence, agents grabbed him by the shirt. Twenty minutes later, the man who had shipped perhaps a third of the cocaine consumed in the U.S. during the past decade was in handcuffs and on his way to Mexico City...
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA: Moments after the space shuttle Challenger lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on January 28, 1986, millions of people watching a textbook launch around the world saw it explode in a horrific fireball, killing seven astronauts, including school teacher Christa McAullife. TIME's Jerry Hannifin reports: "NASA learned a hard lesson with this tragedy. It learned not to be so damn complacent about machinery and the people who monitor that machinery. It changed the mindset of NASA, which up to that time had a sense of overweening self-confidence. That arrogance contributed to the explosion. NASA...