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Because there are so many venerable forms of relationship with mystery, our collaborative citizenship on this planet is moving asymptotically toward a state of being remarkably resembling an interfaith marriage...
PASADENA: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced plans to send an unmanned "rover" to Mars at the end of the year, the first sign of NASA's interest in the Red Planet since it lost contact with its billion-dollar Observer spaceship in 1993. NASA plans to launch its Pathfinder mission next December 2, 1996. If it lands on Mars as planned on July 4, 1997, it would be the first time since two Viking missions landed there in 1976. "Mars has always had this romantic hold on us," says TIME aerospace correspondent Jerry Hannifin...
That won't be easy. The newly discovered planets are much bigger than Earth, yet it is almost impossible to learn very much about them. The stars they orbit--70 Virginis in the constellation Virgo and 47 Ursae Majoris in the Great Bear--are each about 35 light-years away. The speediest space probe would take millions of years to reach them; even a radio signal, the fastest known thing in the universe, would need 35 years to get there, and it would take another 35 for any aliens, should they exist, to answer. The planets are so dim that...
Like TIME's readers, I am passionately curious about the wonders of science and the mysteries of our universe. Together, we'll explore them. I also know that the beauty of the arts, the glory of books and the delights of entertainment are what make our time on this planet so magical. TIME's criticism must be sharp, and its disdain for shallowness and degradation keen, because that is the truest way to show how much we care about the quality of our culture...
What becomes a diva most? Part ownership of Planet Hollywood is good, but a Polaroid camera is better. DEMI MOORE has snapped a self-portrait (yes, that's her) and penned a piece for Details' Mondo Hollywood issue. Apparently, divadom isn't all it's cracked up to be. Moore complains of being thrown onto powdered cement, walking "small, repetitive distances in uncomfortable shoes" and standing around in a G-string with tissues stuffed up her nose. "I have even gone so far as to roll around in a semiclad state on piles of money and Michael Douglas," she says...