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...computer industry. It was designed to have a useful life of three years, at most. Yet today, after a quarter-century, when Fischer has disappeared from the chess scene and the IBM 360 is merely a nostalgia item on display at Boston's Computer Museum, the doughty little spacecraft Pioneer 10 is still plugging along...
...this week, Pioneer is 6 billion miles from Earth, making it the most distant man-made object in the universe. Its signals--barely discernible against the cacophony of background space noise--continue to register on the giant radio telescopes of NASA's Deep Space Network, reassuring scientists that Pioneer is still alive and calling home. Perhaps most remarkable, those signals emanate from an 8-watt transmitter, which radiates about as much power as a bedroom night light, and take more than nine hours to reach Earth...
Enter on big, rough wheels the state of California, which helped pioneer the tricky practice of democracy through referendum. This year's most controversial example is Proposition 215. It would permit patients with cancer, aids, glaucoma, arthritis and other serious illnesses to grow, possess and use marijuana. It would also allow doctors to "prescribe" pot without fear of prosecution--or merely to recommend it, without committing themselves to a note pad. Though the change would not overrule federal or state laws that criminalize the recreational use of marijuana, Prop 215 would provide voter-approved legal backing for patients or doctors...
Kleinig, a pioneer in the ethics of policing, says he would like to see the Program continue to support applications of ethics to different practical and occupational situations...
Clearly Canadian, based in British Columbia, could use some cheer itself. A pioneer in the clear beverage craze of the early 1990s, CC saw its sales go flat when diet-conscious consumers found that its natural-looking soft drinks still had plenty of calories. Orbitz, launched last May, has so far landed in the U.S. on the East and West coasts. The company intends to ship nearly 1 million cases (price: $1.29 a bottle) in its first year, some four times more than originally planned. A lot of adults must be nauseated...