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DIED. RAY WALSTON, 86, master of quirkily cranky roles; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Walston, who won a Tony playing a stylish Satan in the Broadway musical Damn Yankees, made his own devil's pact by joining the sitcom My Favorite Martian strictly for the cash. Though he later took other roles, he was forever branded as extraterrestrial Uncle Martin. He was so closely identified with the role that in 1996, when NASA thought it had found life on Mars, CBS News wanted to use him in a segment with two astro-scientists...
...impossible to determine from orbital images if any evidence of Martian life is actually hidden in the rocks. But the new pictures point to spots where robots or astronauts could one day land and dig--and perhaps find out for sure...
...picked up a newspaper? Every day, the same headlines: Gore Smashes Bush Social Security Plan! Bush Accuses Gore of "Scaring" Seniors Into Voting Booth! Gore Kisses Old People! Bush Loves Old People More Than Gore Does, Says Aide! Old People Rock, Declare Candidates! Our friendly Martian could be forgiven for assuming the American electorate is made up entirely of senior citizens...
...Mars missions, scheduled throughout the next 15 years, are designed to examine and sample Martian ground and atmospheric conditions - an investigation that scientists hope will answer the ultimate question: Is there now, or has there ever been, life on Mars...
With good reason. If microbes could live and fossilize in so punishing a place, they might do the same in other hot spots, like now vanished springs on Mars. Similar remains might be left behind where temperatures are low, like frozen lakes on the Martian surface before the planet dried...