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...with a combination of heat shields, parachutes and, in the case of the U.S. landers, braking rockets. All will come to a bouncing landing swaddled in air bags. The esa mission, which launched last week, was the first off the blocks, but it is the U.S. missions, scheduled for lift-off on Sunday, June 8, and Wednesday, June 25, that are likely to generate the most buzz - and not just because NASA has had 45 years to master the media spin cycle. What will make these expeditions stand out is that each will set loose on the Martian surface...
Kristi: Véronique and I, the newbies, are put in two different lift groups. Divide up the awkward, I guess...
...more satisfying discovery--that gene expression can be modified by experience--has been gradually emerging since the 1980s. Only now is it dawning on scientists what a big and general idea it implies: that learning itself consists of nothing more than switching genes on and off. The more we lift the lid on the genome, the more vulnerable to experience genes appear...
...that we did not want ... has taken place. We cannot undo history. We are now in a situation where we must take action for the sake of the Iraqi people." GUNTER PLEUGER, German ambassador to the U.N., after the Security Council voted to lift sanctions on Iraq...
There was some good news: the French and Russians finally allowed the U.N. to lift economic sanctions on Iraq. And some not-so-good news the same day: Wolfowitz visited the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and was a study in subdued opacity when it came to the Iraq reconstruction plan. In fairness, he wasn't pressed very hard by the Senators, who apparently find precise questions, unlike imprecise speeches, an unnecessary act of self-abnegation. Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel was an exception. He asked, simply: Why was former General Jay Garner so quickly replaced by former diplomat L. Paul Bremer...