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...planet so close to ours, Mars has proved strangely inhospitable to earthly visitors. Of the 33 missions to the Red Planet since 1960, 22 have crashed, broken up en route or otherwise failed before they could complete their research. Undaunted, earthlings are launching yet another assault on Mars this month, when no fewer than three spacecraft - two from NASA, one from the European Space Agency (esa) - will take flight. If they deliver on even part of their promise, the missions could go a long way toward explaining the history, geology and - most intriguing - biology of Mars. The trio of ships...
...million Number of years scientists believe it might take for a new planet to form...
...plans have their own detractors, including nuclear scientist and Pentagon adviser Sidney Drell, who says even a tiny 1-kiloton weapon exploding 50 ft. deep in rock would spew radioactivity across a wide swath of the planet. Arms-control advocates worry that possessing smaller and more precise nuclear weapons would scuttle efforts to stop worldwide proliferation. Said Senator Dianne Feinstein last week: "This Administration seems to be moving toward a military posture in which nuclear weapons are considered just like other weapons." --By Mark Thompson
...because of the widespread carnage they would cause. But the new plans have their own detractors. They include nuclear scientist and Pentagon adviser Sidney Drell, who says that even a tiny 1-kiloton weapon exploding 15 meters deep in rock would spew radioactivity across a wide swath of the planet. Arms-control advocates worry that possessing less catastrophic nuclear weapons would scuttle efforts to stop worldwide proliferation. Said Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, last week: "This Administration seems to be moving toward a military posture in which nuclear weapons are considered just like other weapons." - By Mark Thompson/Washington SERBIA...
...addition to this ongoing change in the world's economic geography?and in part because of it?Hong Kong has now become a victim of biology. The planet's most fertile breeding ground for infectious diseases is located in southern China, just across the increasingly frictionless border with Hong Kong. It's not surprising that due to the SARS virus, which probably jumped from pigs to humans in Guangdong province, Hong Kong is now faced with its most serious crisis since the 1967 riots. Can the city survive both a SARS pandemic and increased competition from a large number...