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...Galileo spacecraft swings into orbit around Jupiter. "The accuracy of this is really amazing," says TIME's Leon Jaroff. "Scientists were able to make incredibly precise calculations to place Galileo in exactly the right place, using Venus and the Earth in a 'crack-the-whip' maneuver to boost the probe's velocity to give it sufficient speed to make it all the way to Jupiter." Also Thursday, a smaller probe released from Galileo 147 days earlier will enter Jupiter's atmosphere. "There won't be any dramatic pictures, just a data stream," notes Jaroff, "but this will help clear...
Data transmission will be considerably slowed because the probe's main antenna has failed to open, forcing engineers to rely on a much slower backup antenna. Jaroff says the problem can be traced back to 1987, when Galileo's launch was delayed by the Challenger explosion. "After the Challenger, they trucked the probe back to California to be put into storage. What engineers think happened is that the vibrations of the transcontinental trip may have worn out some of the lubricants that should have helped the antenna to open." Because of the delay, the spacecraft will only transmit hundreds...
Bill Gates may soon face questions beyond those about his new bestselling book. Justice Department attorneys are reportedly expanding their antitrust probe of Microsoft and have issued several new civil subpoenas to Microsoft competitors, including Compuserve, Netscape and Netcom, to investigate whether the software giant intentionally set up bugs in its new Windows 95 operating system to disable rival internet access programs. Since the August release of Windows 95, numerous companies have complained that Microsoft's accompanying browser, called "Plus!", conflicts and in some cases disables competing browsers when users access the internet through Windows. Don't blame us, Microsoft...
Moreover, TV monitors in the control rooms keep track of each subject unless he is in the bathroom. And a rectal temperature probe takes a new temperature reading every second, which allows the subject's core body temperature rhythm to be plotted continuously on a computer screen...
...Pentagon has launched an internal probe to determine how much was wasted on unnecessary weapons because of the bad reports. Intelligence sources say much of the information supplied by the doubles dealt with Russian aircraft, missile and radar capabilities. But Pentagon officials are privately dubious that they'll be able to pin billions of dollars in waste on the CIA reports. The Defense Department squanders money on unneeded weapons mostly because of pork-barrel politics, interservice rivalries and lobbying by contractors...