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Thomas Thundat, a man you'll meet in this week's magazine, has an unusual job title. He's a surface physicist, which means not that he has failed to probe deeply in his experiments but just the opposite. He brings a passionate scrutiny to the forces at work when one molecule comes into contact with another--when a gas seeps onto a sheet of silicon, for instance, or when a pair of large biological molecules collide and grapple. What Thundat sees in such collisions is more than academic. It has produced a new generation of microscopic sensors, based...
...that impulse in him to just say yes," the prelate marvels. Not all of Tanzi's impulses may have been so noble. On Dec. 27, Tanzi was arrested and later charged with fraudulent bankruptcy and false accounting. He is confined to a Milan jail while prosecutors probe an alleged fraud that already totals €7 billion and may turn out to be far larger. Seven other executives were arrested last week, and Tanzi's son Stefano was questioned by prosecutors. The size of the alleged fraud could make Parmalat the biggest corporate scandal ever in Europe, easily...
...While irregular, the move is not unprecedented. Various officials were told from the start that such a request might be made. Along with the recusal this week of Attorney General John Ashcroft, this suggests that investigators are ready to enter the next stage of the probe. U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has been named special prosecutor to oversee the inquiry. The FBI has already extensively re-interviewed some White House officials using emails and phone logs from their search to press for the identity of the leaker. ?They are taking this very seriously,? says one close to the case...
...ABANDONED. NOZOMI, a Mars probe that was Japan's first interplanetary mission, after scientists determined it wouldn't be able to properly orbit the red planet because of an electrical failure. The craft, whose name means hope in Japanese, will be steered away from Mars to prevent it from crashing into the planet...
...ever charged with the crimes. Last week a four-year judicial inquiry concluded that it was probable, though not proven, that the loyalist paramilitaries who planted the bombs had help from low-level members of the British security forces. Justice Henry Barron, the report's author, tried to probe whether senior British intelligence figures were involved in the attack. He didn't reach a conclusion, but the British government hampered his investigation by reneging on its promise to cooperate fully with the inquiry. After an 18-month delay, it handed over no original documents, only 16 pages of letters referring...