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...find out, the 9-ft., 700-lb. Huygens hitched a ride aboard the 6-ton, 22-ft. Cassini orbiter, which reached the Saturnian system last summer. On Christmas Eve, Cassini lobbed Huygens toward Titan, and on Jan. 14 the probe reached the moon, slamming into its atmosphere at 13,000 m.p.h. Throughout a 147-min. parachute descent, Huygens took pictures and sniffed the air. After it landed, it switched on the remainder of its six instruments. What it saw was not very welcoming...
...preserve the view. The nuns have one on the grounds of their convent, which Howie loves to approach at perilous speeds on his tractor mower. We go right to the edge with him, and even if we're not always laughing, we're glad to be along for the ride...
...downtown traffic to a standstill as Putin was paying a visit to his native city. Some waved signs demanding that he resign. What provoked all this violence and incivility? A new law that strips about 40 million Russian citizens of some social benefits, including the right of pensioners to ride public transport for free. (As an added affront, fares jumped by 30%.) The legislation, which replaces benefits with individual cash subsidies, is part of the Kremlin's effort to balance its books. But the government allocated just $6 billion to cover $18 billion in scrapped benefits, and starting in February...
...Rogers turned investing into an international thrill ride in his books Investment Biker and Adventure Capitalist. His latest effort, Hot Commodities, explains how to invest in everything from tin to coffee--with detours into Brazilian sugar farms and Dutch smuggling rings. TIME's JYOTI THOTTAM asked him for some New Year's wisdom...
...long as the service is utilized by a few students, it should not be cut. Yes, the administration must choose some ridership threshold beyond which it is unreasonable to run shuttles and instead encourage students to call the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for a ride. But we have, in the past, noted several objections to leaving students to be driven home in squad cars, and so we believe that a mere one rider per hour justifies the cost of continued shuttle service. Futhermore, the funds for the extended hours come from Gross’s discretionary fund...