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Life on Mars - it is an earthling's fantasy as old as Eldorado or the Holy Grail. And yet mankind may be on the brink of actually proving whether there is, or ever has been, life on the Red Planet. This spring three spacecraft are scheduled to take off for Mars. But in the greatest challenge to the primacy of the U.S. space program since Sputnik, the honor of confirming life on Mars is not expected to fall to some brash NASA spacecraft, but to a quirky British-built pod assembled by a shaggy-haired English egghead. The British space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rush Hour on Mars | 1/5/2003 | See Source »

...What do you think is going to happen on earth in this decade?" asks Marsic. "We will be able to travel to new solar systems and discover new planets." As scientific advances increase, humans, like the Elohim, "will be able to design new organisms from scratch," he says. "I?m sure some day some people from earth will go to another planet and create new life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Are the Raelians? | 1/4/2003 | See Source »

...While Raelians do not believe in the eternal life of the soul, they do believe that the Elohim?s scientific advancements have allowed them to provide eternal life to a relatively few individuals, including Jesus and Mohammad, who live with other worthy human beings on another planet. When Rael wrote his message, he claimed that there only 8,400 individuals deemed worthy enough to live on this planet, Marsic says. While it is believed that Mother Theresa and Gandhi have passed muster, most others will not be so lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Are the Raelians? | 1/4/2003 | See Source »

...only one on this planet who thinks that Shania's music is bland and generic? I haven't been inclined to buy her CDs, and it pleases me to know that I have not helped fill her husband Lange's already fat wallet. A colleague of his says he wants to have the top-selling album of all time. That speaks volumes about his love of music: it's just business as usual. I feel sorry that Shania isn't having fun, and I suspect this is because she's not doing the kind of music she would love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 30, 2002 | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

...stood for those things that had come to define his nation. Its armed forces were the best equipped and most disciplined in the world; their fighting spirit had just been the decisive factor in ending a war. The American economy was the largest and most technologically advanced on the planet, brimming with broad-shouldered vitality. Perhaps above all, the President thought big; he had grand, expansive ideas of how the world might be ordered to increase human security and happiness, and he cast these thoughts not in terms of some narrow set of American interests but as universal truths applicable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble with Saving the World | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

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