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Last week in the Pioneer control room at NASA's Ames Research Center, in Mountain View, California, project manager Fred Wirth watched Pioneer's data, in the form of multicolored blocks of numbers flashing across a computer screen. To make the best use of the spacecraft's dwindling power, he has shut down all but three of its 11 scientific instruments, and by early next year only one--Van Allen's cosmic ray detector--will be able to function. Citing operational costs and the diminishing scientific return, NASA has ordered Wirth to halt all communications with Pioneer next year...
That is melancholy news not only for Wirth and other members of the Pioneer team but also for astronomer Frank Drake and his crew at the nearby Mountain View headquarters of seti. There, scientists hoping to pick up radio signals from a distant civilization have been using Pioneer's signals to test the efficacy of their detection systems. Says Drake: "It's been our prime diagnostic tool...
...style economic policies" that will kill millions of people. She also says efforts to privatize prisons are the first step to concentration camps, not flinching from concluding that such proposals are Hitlerian plots by the G.O.P. Her own platform includes creating a Third National Bank and building a "Rocky Mountain Trench" to carry water from Alaska to the Colorado River...
...Country has more than 50 state parks and still considers agriculture, especially wheat and cattle, its economic mainstay. Despite this year's highly publicized Freeman standoff in Jordan and the arrest of the Unabomber suspect near Helena, Montana remains one of the most moderate of the conservative Rocky Mountain states. Clinton won here by 2% in 1992, but a Republican Governor was elected the same year. And both the contested congressional seats this year are considered close...
Nobody likes the king of the mountain, and that's the role the Harvard men's soccer team finds itself in. However, one would be hard-pressed to find a member of the team who is dissatisfied with its position...