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...hour away. For days the captors' identity was a mystery, with speculation running from plain pirates to Abu Sayyaf, the most feared Muslim rebel group in the predominantly Roman Catholic Philippines. At midweek the Philippine Defense Secretary confirmed that the hostages were being held by Galib Andang, a.k.a. "Commander Robot," the Abu Sayyaf leader on Jolo and perpetrator of other kidnappings. He wanted a multimillion-dollar ransom. Late in the week Abu Sayyaf allowed a free-lance journalist a glimpse at what the Murphys had avoided: almost all the hostages were ill, hungry and dehydrated. And the captors insisted...
...Wisconsin Dells-a budget-friendly Disney World with miles upon miles of lined-up attractions. Want to be a care-free kid again? In one afternoon, you can hit Ripley's Believe it or Not, The Dungeon of Tortures, The Rock Star Wax Museum, Clown Heaven and Robot World all for about $20. It's all about cross-cultural exchange-urban families are flocking to Wisconsin to avoid the Orlando crowds and to expose their children to the wonders of gem mining, fishing and cooking your own meat. Will it last? Of course not. All the more reason to book...
...years later, when Mars and Earth are again in conjunction, another spacecraft--this one carrying a crew--would be sent to join the robot ship on the surface. The astronauts could work on Mars for 18 months, living principally in their arrival craft, and then, at the end of their stay, abandon that ship, climb into the robot craft and blast off for home. "Fly several of these missions," says Robert Zubrin, author of the book The Case for Mars and one of the engineers who developed the plan, "and you leave the surface scattered with a series of warming...
...Fighting for us B: Expanding possibilities C: One robot's journey to become an ordinary...
...robot deployed in Antarctica to look for meteorites has returned in triumph. Nomad, a joint project sponsored by the Robotic Institute of Carnegie-Mellon and NASA's Space Telerobotics Program (bet you didn't know they had one), set out on its own to look for space rocks stuck in ice and came back with three of them. Scientists hope Nomad's success bodes well for robotic exploration of other planets. You know what they say about Antarctica: if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere...