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...much of the wobble has been fixed, thanks to a satellite known as the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP. Since July 2001, WMAP has been orbiting in deep space, a million miles from Earth, studying the most ancient light in existence. And in a dramatic reminder that important space science is almost always done by machines, not fragile humans, it reported a series of precision measurements last week that will finally put cosmology on a firm foundation...
This situation is changing, however, as researchers begin systematically to probe Antarctica's ice, rock and sediments for clues. Their work is always arduous, often heroic and sometimes dangerous. This was brought home two weeks ago, when a helicopter shuttling supplies to a scientific field station crashed near McMurdo Sound, injuring...
...bumpy start that included the resignation of Henry Kissinger as its first chairman, the commission investigating pre-Sept. 11 government lapses may remain just as controversial. Two commissioners of the bipartisan panel, which holds its first meeting this week, told TIME they will push for a wide-ranging, aggressive probe that will include testimony from top Bush Administration officials who didn't testify last year in a joint inquiry by the House and Senate intelligence committees...
...panelist, Tim Roemer, a Democrat who just retired from Congress, complained in a statement he issued last month as a member of the House-Senate panel that the congressional probe suffered because such officials as Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, John Ashcroft and Condoleezza Rice "were not questioned directly about issues related to the Sept. 11 attacks." A Rumsfeld spokesman refused to "speculate on what participation will be extended" to the commission...
...overwhelming majority of Americans would back a UN-authorized war, fewer than 40 percent would support the U.S. acting without UN backing. And a new Washington Post-ABC poll also found that, like the Europeans, seven out of ten Americans would give the UN inspectors months more to probe for prohibited weapons in Iraq before moving to military action. So, if the administration is inclined to press ahead without UN backing, British support would be important in helping sway American public opinion. But Blair himself may find it increasingly difficult to join an invasion without UN backing...