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...visit the region this week in an effort to ease the crisis, but Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes said there was little hope for a swift resolution. Meanwhile, the U.S., Britain and other countries told their nationals to leave India, adding to similar advice on Pakistan. MARS A Martian Odyssey, And a Sea of Ice Where did all the water on Mars go when the once warm and wet planet became cold and dry? After studying data from the orbiting Odyssey spacecraft, U.S. scientists believe it's still there, lying just below the surface as a huge...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE A Room with a Mind of Its Own Machines with sinister minds of their own have been standard fare in popular sci-fi chillers like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Stephen King's bestseller Christine. But the fiction behind these devices is rapidly becoming fact, and Ada - a room-sized artificial intelligence system on show at the 2002 Swiss National Exhibition in Neuch?tel until Oct. 20 - is living proof. Developed at the Institute for Neuroinformatics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Ada is a mirror-clad room outfitted with its own electronic eyes and ears...
...covered a lot of ground during his five-day odyssey - 3,400 miles, to be exact, leaving a trail of 18 pipe bombs. The devices, which Helder planted in mailboxes, injured six people, spraying BBs and nails in a burst of smokeless gunpowder. (In one more bizarre twist, Helder says he was planning to place the bombs in locations to form a sort of geographical smiley face...
...have a certain gestalt element and that lose something when separated from one another. To read Necessity, is to follow a coherent set of Sacks’ ruminations on a variety of subjects—to be a participant, if only fleetingly, in Sacks’ beautifully realized spiritual odyssey. By Stevens’ and, for that matter, just about any other reasonable metric, Necessity is indeed a damned serious affair—and damned good as well...
...mammoth hype, stoked by a quillion cover stories, including TIME's, before anyone had seen the completed work--and by the worldwide audience's communal memory of Star Wars (1977) and its sequels, The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). If the Odyssey had enjoyed--or suffered--as much anticipatory fluffing as Phantom Menace did, some ancient Greeks would surely have muttered, "Homer's lost it." And the poet would have wearily defended himself, as Lucas does today...