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That should soon change. Two weeks ago, a space probe called NEAR was launched from the Kennedy Space Center on a trajectory that will carry it to within 20 miles of Eros, where it will remain in orbit for a year of intensive study. The mission should give astronomers important clues to the formation of the planets and the origin of asteroids. Just as significant, however, it should demonstrate that NASA has started to change its bloated, bureaucratic ways. Although this is one of the trickiest space missions ever, it's also one of the cheapest. The Galileo probe...
...Tevatron is so powerful that it can probe the structure within quarks themselves--structure that had, until now, been presumed not to exist. If, as it seems, there really is something lurking inside the quark, the whole Standard Model may have to be trashed. And subatomic physics may suddenly become a lot more interesting than even its practitioners suspected...
Quinn's memo went out a few days after the White House announced its discovery of Hillary Rodham Clinton's law-firm billing records, long sought by Whitewater investigators. Even as more controversial documents surface, the White House insists that it has been forthcoming in the Whitewater probe and that Republicans are trying only to harm the President. Among last week's developments...
Prime Minister Jozef Oleksy resigned after military prosecutors launched a formal investigation into allegations that he had spied for Moscow for more than a decade. Oleksy welcomed the probe as an opportunity to clear his name. President Aleksander Kwasniewski asked Oleksy to stay on until he could assemble a new government...
Bowing to pressure from Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, Bosnian Serb leaders agreed to release some 180 prisoners of war and allow a full probe into suspected mass graves. They also pledged cooperation with war-crimes investigators. The commander of NATO-led forces in Bosnia said there may be 200 to 300 mass graves in Bosnia. As many as 7,000 people are missing from Srebrenica alone, which was overrun by Bosnian Serb forces last July. By week's end, Bosnian Croats and Muslims had freed 250 prisoners; the Serbs none...