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...suite of mineralogy instruments to hunt for salts, clays and other signs that liquid water is manipulating the soil. If Phoenix Lander hits its targets, this will be a big step toward later missions that will search for microscopic organic life. "Pay attention," Smith says, "because it's the polar region. No one's ever been there, and it's going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmic Flock | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

Less glamorous but more sweeping than the half-year Phoenix mission was the long-running Ulysses mission, which took the first full measure of the sun's polar regions. If it swirls, floats or emanates near the sun, Ulysses studied it. The spacecraft discovered that the sun's magnetic field determines the regions that produce the solar wind, and ruffled more than a few scientists' feathers when it showed that a hot corona produces the fastest solar winds--exactly the opposite of prevailing theories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmic Flock | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...care about the environment as much as anyone else. If the environment wasn't looking where it was going and was about to get hit by a car, I'd yell, "Hey, environment, watch out!" I get weepy when I see a poorly rendered CGI polar bear drown. But unlike me, Cassandra was taught to spend more time actually caring than remembering that she is supposed to. We flush the toilet only when absolutely necessary, for instance. Which, in my unenlightened opinion, would mean every time we use it, especially since her being a child of hippies means we have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kitchen Stinks | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...pack large, allegedly inbred families into dilapidated brick row houses; and whose "Ch'timi" patois - rooted the ancient French Picard dialect - is incomprehensible to outsiders. Little wonder Abrams decides to spare his wife the horror of the north by moving up alone - arriving in mid-summer in a polar jacket and after-ski boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Movie Finds Success in Unlikely Quarter | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

...noted that the people who saw Truth already cared enough to spend leisure time watching a lecture about melting polar ice caps. It's not clear minds were changed. The converted saw the film and worried more; the rest went to Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a Film Change The World? | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

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