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...under 11 kg, it operated for three months and in all that time toddled across a stretch of Martian terrain little bigger than a football field. The new rovers are much closer to true space cars. Measuring 1.5 m tall from their wheels to the top of their camera masts, the 2003 models weigh about 180 kg each and should be able to cover up to 915 m in their 90 days of life - including many days they will spend standing around studying rocks. Each has a robot arm crowded with instruments: a rock-abrasion tool for boring into samples...
...BOTTOM LINE It's like the legend of Ulysses. The pact helps a government to tie itself to the mast and resist the sirens. JOSE MANUEL DURAO BARROSO, Portugal's Prime Minister, on supporting the Stability and Growth Pact
...when tests of one’s fortitude are so rare that “reality” television shows like Survivor and Fear Factor become yardsticks of courage. The military offers the real thing. Richard Henry Dana Jr., Class of 1837, author of Two Years Before the Mast, took a deferment and had the time of his life. To cure his failing eyesight and to test his mettle, he took a leave of absence in 1834 and shipped as a common sailor aboard a ship bound for California, via the South Seas and Cape Horn. His account...
...cheering and swaying as if he were at Woodstock IV, showing no disapproval then or later over the booing of Republican Senator Trent Lott, who had come to pay his respects. If Jesse Ventura, the ex-wrestler, can credibly take offense and, with impunity, order flags flying at half-mast to be raised early, you know it was unsavory. Here's how Congressman Tom Davis, chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, summed it up: "Nothing gets Republican voters more hyped up than seeing President Clinton on the tube...it got our base ginned...
...there’s one thing I love to see, it’s a huge fuckin’ SUV tooling through midtown Manhattan with an American flag flying half-mast on its antenna! What could be less French...