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...fear of increasing their exposure to criminal charges now that a federal task force of FBI agents and prosecutors is proceeding at a much slower pace to investigate Huang and his web of donors. Thompson is limited by law in his scope, dogged by Democrats to expand the probe and pressed by his own party's conservatives to confine it. Meanwhile, key Democratic fund raisers, including Charlie Yah Lin Trie and Pauline Kanchanalak, have either fled the country or were abroad to begin with...
Mars is not the only place the new budget ships will visit. Last spring planetary scientists were buzzing over images returned by the Galileo space probe that provided evidence of a water ocean beneath a thin rind of ice on Jupiter's moon Europa. Where there's water, there's usually heat, and where there's water and heat, there could well be life. Sometime after 2000, NASA is hoping to launch a Europa probe that will orbit the Jovian moon at an altitude of 60 miles--about the same distance at which Apollo spacecraft used to orbit Earth...
...plunging as low as -125[degrees]F at night) kills it. The Pathfinder lander, also able to take readings, could function for up to a year. No matter when the machines wink out, however, Mars is unlikely to remain unattended. On Sept. 12, Global Surveyor, another robot probe, will arrive at the planet, settle into a 250-mile-high orbit and begin two years of mapping the surface. A second lander-and-orbiter pair is set to be dispatched Marsward in 1998, with more to follow roughly every other year until 2004. Finally, in 2005, the program will culminate...
...hammered together from available, off-the-shelf parts. While this makes for less elegant vehicles, it also makes for less pricey ones. They cost no more than $250 million, in contrast to the $1.48 billion it costs to build luxury liners like the still-to-be-launched Cassini Saturn probe. Cheap ships means more of them, and for space planners that is a good thing...
...testing, including the garrote and duct tape used to strangle and gag the little girl, and handwriting and handprint analyses of the ransom note. Detectives are using advanced software to inspect and magnify crime-scene photos--a technique that enables them to examine minute marks on door locks. The probe is still hobbled by tensions between Hunter's office and the Boulder police. For six weeks the cops refused to share the DNA findings with the D.A., making them available only last week...