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? Discovery's Mission Is the shuttle worth preserving? Discovery left July 4 for a 12-day trip to the International Space Station. Critics say the pricey shuttle does little for science. They want it grounded for good, freeing funds for unmanned missions to Mars, Venus and beyond.
Given the shuttle's recent mishaps, even a close call with Discovery - such as a shuttle emergency landing back to Florida or at alternate landing sites in Spain or France - would likely be enough to shut down the program now, rather than in 2010. It would also make it more...
The die, however, has probably been cast for all junk foods in schools. Talks between the Clinton team and the snackmakers that provide the other goodies stuffed into school vending machines are under way, helped in no small part by the fact that the companies confront the same kind of...
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS STADIUM ARCADIUM The Chili Peppers have always been proud hedonists, so their decade of musical coasting has seemed less a squandering of talent than an example of character as fate. But with producer Rick Rubin pushing their buttons, the Peppers summoned up two discs and 28...
The scolds, however, knew what they were talking about. In a solar system crowded with sister worlds that either emerged stillborn like Mercury and Venus or died in infancy like Mars, we're finally coming to appreciate the knife-blade margins within which life can thrive. For more than a...