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Whatever discoveries the trio of missions make, they are almost certain to rekindle some of the thrill of space exploration for a world that has seen precious little of it lately. Says Squyres: "Hey, if you can't have fun building spacecraft and sending them to Mars, give it up, man!" --Reported by Dan Cray/Los Angeles and Leo Cendrowicz/Brussels
...computer store for about a dollar per gigabyte. You need to hook up the hard drive to your PC or Mac, install a free piece of software called BlessTivo, open the TiVo box and attach its new brain. (Reverse the process, and you can make a backup of precious TV recordings on your computer.) Most TiVos have space for two drives running side by side, so you don't need to lose shows and settings on the original...
...buddies used to go water-skiing on weekends, taking their first-generation Macintoshes and trading software. Gaidano still remembers that sinking feeling the weekend he booted up his Mac and saw the sad-face icon, indicating all was not well with the single floppy disc inside. Every precious byte, including all Gaidano's romantic correspondence, was gone. "I was all freaked out," he says. "Nobody could tell me what to do to recover it"--not even his government contacts...
...will be ours," says planetary scientist Colin Pillinger, a professor at Britain's Open University and the man who dreamed up the project. Whatever discoveries the trio of missions make, they are almost certain to rekindle some of the thrill of space exploration for a world that has seen precious little of it lately. Says Squyres: "Hey, if you can't have fun building spacecraft and sending them to Mars, give...
Alexander McCall Smith is fond of a fat - no, make that "traditionally built" - woman named Precious. Their relationship began in 1996 while Smith was on holiday in France. During that trip, he scribbled a few lines of a short story, which grew into a novel, then a series, chronicling the life of Precious Ramotswe, owner of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Gaborone, Botswana. Four books into the series, McCall Smith is not stopping yet. "To say goodbye now would be like leaving in the middle of a conversation," the 54-year-old Zimbabwe-born Scot says. "Rather rude...