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...When two rovers landed on opposite sides of Mars a little over a year ago, they carried a 90-day warranty: that was all the working lifetime the designers of Spirit and Opportunity would promise. "In my secret heart of hearts," says Stephen Squyres, the Cornell planetary scientist who heads the rover mission, "I was hoping to stretch it out to six months...
That's true, at least, for Meridiani Planum, the plain near the Martian equator, where Opportunity set down. By pure good fortune, the rover landed inside a small crater gouged by an ancient meteorite. This natural excavation exposed ancient layers of crust laid down by a shallow lake that had periodically dried up and refilled. Spirit landed half a world away in giant Gusev Crater, on what looked like a lake bed but turned out to be lava. Frustrated, mission scientists ordered the rover to move on. "We were already at 80 days, but we decided to put the pedal...
...HUPD officer was sent to Adams House on a report of a stolen blue Univega Rover Mountain, taken from a bicycle rack outside the dorm. The stolen item was valued...
...growing number of Chinese firms that are trying to ease profit pressure at home through global acquisitions. Guangdong-based TCL last year bought the television arm (including the RCA brand) of French electronics giant Thomson. Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. is in talks to acquire the very English MG Rover and has already bought Korean SUV maker Ssangyong. A consortium of Chinese companies bid on the Canadian mining firm Noranda. Says Arthur Kroeber, managing editor of the China Economic Quarterly, of the dealmaking: "It's not a silly gamble, but it is high risk...
...turn around money-losing Thomson, which sells old TV models, and boardroom squabbles with its new French executives threaten to upset the venture. "We don't have much fun in Paris anymore," says an aide to Li Dongsheng, TCL's chairman. Shanghai Automotive, for its part, hopes that its Rover purchase will compensate for its troubles at home, where Shanghai Automotive has had to cut prices on its top-selling Santana?the product of a joint venture with Volkswagen?by 30% this year...