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...challenges. NASA has dared go to Mercury only once before, 30 years ago, when Mariner 10 made three flybys. Now NASA is set to try again, with a spacecraft called MESSENGER, which is scheduled to take off as early as this week on a mission to become the first probe to orbit the planet...
...SCIENCE SPACE: nasa readies a probe to Mercury - the first in 30 years...
...first meaningful parliamentary elections, and though Nazarbayev is not in danger of losing power, he is for the first time facing an alliance of motivated opposition parties. Getting tough with foreign oil companies, whom many regard as outside exploiters, is likely to be popular with voters. The police probe into BG is still ongoing, and no formal charges have been filed. If the Kazakh government can strike a deal with the Kashagan consortium on BG's stake, investors' jitters may subside. For its part, BG, which retains a 32.5% stake in the estimated 6 billion barrels...
According to Terry Quinn, an F.D.N.Y. veteran and a friend of Leary's who serves as a consultant on the show, the bigoted ball busting is part of a firehouse culture in which guys constantly probe one another's weak spots, something TV's lionization of fire fighters tends to overlook. "Shows like Third Watch are corny, formulaic soap operas," Quinn says. The Rescue Me team is conscious of being more real, more unsparing, morewellcable. Looking over posters for the ad campaign backstage, Leary rejects one that has the main characters in uniform, lined up, gazing upward. "Too heroic...
...relentlessly manipulated by advertising and marketing executives. Sure, it feels good when the flight attendant in business class pays you special attention-but Kunzru's protagonist detects the hypocrisy in her "android charm, the way this disciplined female body reminded him that it was just a tool, the uniformed probe-head of the large corporate machine in which he was enmeshed...