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...Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” —Someone should have told Tim Burton a long time ago that his days were over. Probably after his “Planet of the Apes” remake, which was, astonishingly, worse than “Gigli.” But with Johnny Depp, a popular Roald Dahl property, and hordes of pseudo-hipster NYU students who love Burton’s “dark, brooding sensibility” and the “amazing production design of ‘Batman,’” it?...
...They back-slapped and high-fived when the Pathfinder lander bounced down on Mars in 1997 and when the Spirit and Opportunity rovers followed in 2004. They cheered when the Cassini probe went into orbit around Saturn last summer and when the Huygens lander reached the surface of the planet's moon Titan months later. If it's possible to grow tired of popping corks and raising glasses, the J.P.L. engineers may be getting close...
...plans for future missions, and an engineer crunching numbers one day happened to notice that in 1977, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune would fall into a rare planetary conga line that they would not form again for 176 years. This insight set the stage for the spectacular four-planet Voyager flights of the 1970s and '80s. Today the business of blue-skying ideas has become more institutionalized with a 20-person group called the Advanced Projects Design Team--or Team X--which meets three times a week...
...people's lives, says director Patrice Legro. There are exhibits on global warming, forensics and DNA replication, and even an interactive display called "Lights at Night" that allows visitors to navigate the globe using a joystick, along the way viewing data on energy use and population changes around the planet...
...News, all while standing on the Oxford University campus. "This is really impressive," gushed Policelli, 25, who works at the National Library for Health at the university. Welcome to the world of mobile television, where broadcasters, mobile operators and handset makers are trying to bring traditional TV to the planet's mobile-phone users. Policelli was taking part in a trial launched by British mobile operator O2 and broadcaster Arqiva to deliver 16 channels - including bbc One, bbc Two, bbc News 24 and Sky News - to phones supplied by Finnish handset giant Nokia. For the last five years, mobile companies...