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...cases were reported worldwide. But a recent surge of new infections in Africa is raising fears that wiping out the disease may be just beyond humanity's grasp. Three years ago, Africa was on track to meet the World Health Organization's (WHO) objective of a polio-free planet by 2005?only 82 cases were reported. A year later, new cases had almost tripled, with most occurrences in Nigeria, after immunizations were curtailed due to rumors that the program was a Western plot to sterilize Muslim girls. By the end of 2003, another 447 children in Africa had been paralyzed...
...billion miles away from Earth, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is bearing down on SATURN. Much of our knowledge of that planet dates from Voyager 1's close encounter in 1980, which TIME chronicled in a cover story...
Larger than Mercury and Pluto, Titan would be a perfectly respectable planet if it were orbiting the sun instead of Saturn. Its dense atmosphere is made of organic materials like methane and ethane, strikingly similar to our own atmosphere before life emerged. Since Titan's surface temperature approaches -300ºF, the moon almost certainly does not sustain life, but studying it can give scientists a peek at a sort of cryopreserved version of Earth long...
Saturn's moons The Saturnian system has 31 known moons. During its 76 orbits, Cassini will fly by nine of them. Planet-size Titan, with its organic atmosphere, will be visited at least 45 times...
...Saturnalia Begin After a 2.2 billion-mile trip, a NASA craft is set to orbit the ringed planet...