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...HAKUI: This Japanese city's space center, Cosmo Isle Hakui, provides a very grounded examination of extraterrestrial life. The museum boasts an in-depth exhibition about the SETI project, which aims to discover intelligent alien life, as well as space artifacts like a prototype Moon buggy...
...five insurgents are gathered in a muddy field outside Baghdad, their faces shrouded behind scarves and illuminated only by the light of a full moon. They brandish an assortment of rocket-propelled grenades, mortar tubes, Strella missile launchers and Kalashnikovs--weapons they say they intend to use against American soldiers. The leader of the group, who says his name is Khaled, 31, claims his men conduct "regular" attacks against U.S. forces. Saddam Hussein's capture has done nothing to quell their deadly ambitions, because they are fired not by loyalty to the old regime but by religious zeal...
...election-year head snapper, President George W. Bush sketched out a long-term vision for manned spaceflight that goes far beyond the dog paddling in near-Earth orbit to which the space agency has confined itself since the 1970s. Back on the table is human exploration of the moon; back on the table is human exploration of Mars. Swept to the floor--or at least to the side--is the overbudget, underproducing International Space Station and the increasingly creaky, increasingly lethal shuttle fleet...
...each resident. HAKUI: This Japanese city's space center, Cosmo Isle Hakui, provides a very grounded examination of extraterrestrial life. The museum boasts an in-depth exhibition about the SETI project, which aims to discover intelligent alien life, as well as space artifacts like a prototype moon buggy. INTERLAKEN: Founded by UFO expert Erich von Däniken, Mystery Park in Switzerland explores, among other things, possible contact between aliens and ancient civilizations like the Maya...
...your way to the moon [Mr. President], you think you may have the time to stop by Africa?” Ogletree asked, referring to the president’s recently-announced plans to expand American space exploration. “On your way to the moon, you think you may have time to stop by South Central Los Angeles? You talk about building Iraq. How about building America’s ghettos...