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...from the European Space Agency (esa) - will take flight. If they deliver on even part of their promise, the missions could go a long way toward explaining the history, geology and - most intriguing - biology of Mars. The trio of ships will take about seven months to reach Mars (the moon, by contrast, is just a quick three-day hop) and will follow flight plans that are in many respects quite similar. All are traveling to deep basins or other formations on Mars that look as if they were once flooded with water, a key requirement for life. All will also...
...water comes in, the water goes out, propelled by the perpetual engine of the sun and moon. With 70% of the earth's surface covered by the restless tides and currents of the oceans, the idea of harnessing that movement to serve the planet's energy needs is too tempting to ignore. Since the Middle Ages people have built tidal mills, trapping an incoming tide in a storage pond to turn a wheel as the water ebbs. But the dream has always been to tap the power of the ocean itself - to harness the force of tides mighty enough...
After a 15-minute dash across a city lighted only by a full moon, we pulled up at al-Yarmouk hospital, an over-burdened 700-bed facility guarded by U.S. troops. Frustrated staff members trying to practice lifesaving without morphine, stretchers or clean linen could do little. "We have no neurologist here," a white-smocked doctor said. "It's hopeless...
Chen Kaige has done his time in the dungeon of film pessimism. The Chinese director's best-known works, Farewell My Concubine and Temptress Moon, are epics of loss and betrayal. Chen knows these pangs firsthand: as a teenager during the Cultural Revolution, he was forced to denounce his father, a distinguished filmmaker. But one streak in him runs deeper than despair: the need to dramatize the social process that shapes boys into men. In virtually all his films--from his 1984 Yellow Earth to his new Together--a child falls under a teacher's benign or malign spell. Chen...
...galaxy. But turning off the lights is not something you do at a maximum-security prison. So the 18 students in the inmate astronomy class--who were getting their first chance to peek through a telescope at the impossibly open sky above them--had to content themselves with the moon and Saturn...