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...bring your dead wife to work Day on planet Solaris. When reports of disquiet seep from a manned space mission, Chris Kelvin (George Clooney) is sent to find out what went wrong. Beautifully wrong, for all the passengers have been infected with a palpable vision of someone they have loved and lost. Waking to find a perfect facsimile of his late wife (Natascha McElhone), Kelvin soon surrenders to what seems like a gift from the grave. Steven Soderbergh's remake of Andrei Tarkovsky's science-fiction classic, based on the Stanislaw Lem novel, can't touch the 1972 film...
...While almost every telecom company on the planet has postponed or shelved plans to build data-intensive, high-bandwidth mobile networks, Hutchison Whampoa is charging ahead undeterred. The company just launched pilot 3G (for third-generation) networks in England and Italy, and has aggressive plans to initiate similar services in seven other markets across the globe over the next several years. Even allies have doubts about the strategy. Hutchison's partners in the United Kingdom?Japan's NTT DoCoMo and the Netherlands' KPN Mobile?have written down the values of their portions of the business by 80% and 86%, respectively...
...worth every penny. By plugging real-life climate data from satellites and ocean buoys into the Earth Simulator, researchers can create a computer model of the entire planet, then scroll it forward in time to see what will happen to our environment. Scientists have already completed a forecast of global ocean temperatures for the next 50 years, and a full set of climate predictions will be ready by year's end. Soon, instead of speculating about the possible environmental impact of, say, the Kyoto accord, policymakers will be able to plug its parameters into the virtual Earth, then skip ahead...
...cholera, hepatitis, human papilloma virus and measles. And he's not alone: some four dozen labs around the world are working on their own versions of what Arntzen would prefer to call "plant-derived" vaccines, based on tomatoes, bananas and potatoes. Within a few years, some of the planet's most pernicious killers could be in retreat--and it won't hurt a bit. --By Michael D. Lemonick
...hottest car in the world will have a top speed of 10 ft. per min.--if, that is, the world happens to be Mars. NASA is currently testing two robotic rovers to send to the Red Planet in a mission set to launch next summer. The two solar-powered vehicles will travel up to 330 ft.--compared with Sojourner's 16 ft.--a day while using their nine cameras and three spectrometers to make scientific observations. First on the agenda? Looking for traces of water. INVENTOR NASA AVAILABILITY January 2004 TO LEARN MORE fido.jpl.nasa.gov...