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...mission, Magellan will start all over and do it again. Any change in the landscape that shows up in the second version -- new lava or other debris, for example -- would be strong evidence of volcanism, making Venus only the fourth body in the solar system, after Earth, Jupiter's moon Io and Neptune's moon Triton, where eruptions have been spotted...
...punishment. G.O.P. officials fear Hickel might win enough votes to hand a November victory to Democratic candidate Tony Knowles. But one Sturgulewski supporter, senate president Tim Kelly of Anchorage, shrugs off the Hickel-Coghill threat. Says Kelly: "You've got two old dogs who want to bay at the moon one last time, but their time has gone...
...club at Korea University meets 90 minutes a day, six days a week, and typically draws 80 to 150 people. They come to hear two students translate articles from the latest issue of the magazine; the club president ; chooses the interpreters on the basis of their skills. English major Moon Eun Kyong says the program helps her keep up with the news. Business student Lee Kyong Nam avidly reads business stories to follow worldwide economic trends. International news articles are usually the most familiar and thus the easiest to translate; the more exotically worded art, music and book reviews...
...computer. It pioneered the move from the industrial to the information society. It did a lion's share of theoretical work in the sciences. For better or worse, it built -- and used -- the atom bomb, forever changing the calculus of war and peace. It took man to the moon. It played the major role in proving capitalism, widely seen as doomed in the century's first half, to be a vital and successful system. Above all, it decisively helped defeat the two great totalitarian enemies of freedom -- Nazism and communism...
...many people feared last week's tremor could be a precursor. The prediction, which has made its way into several newspapers, was the work of Iben Browning, a New Mexico climate consultant, who based his forecast on an analysis of the gravitational pull of the sun and moon. Many seismologists, worried that public concern could degenerate into panic, have denounced it as unscientific hocus-pocus. At the same time, they agree that the New Madrid fault, which stretches over 225 km (140 miles), poses serious long-term risks, especially to the nearby cities of Memphis and St. Louis...