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UNPLUGGED. MARS PATHFINDER lander and its plucky rover SOJOURNER; following a Sept. 27 blackout, probably brought on by exposure to the cold Martian elements. During their four-month tenure, the lander and rover transmitted more than 16,550 pictures...
...Rover's conjunctivitis acting up? Try a little acupuncture. Fluffy spitting up hair balls again? There's an herbal tonic just for her. Horses can lap up the "vibrational wisdom" of dandelion and other floral essences. There are even homeopathic remedies tailored to the strange and, it must be assumed, esoteric needs of iguanas...
...winter approaches, the probe that fired the imagination of the American public is shivering in sub-zero Martian temperatures, cut off from home, unable to send home pictures or receive the orders programmers are sending it to hit its restart button. The plucky Sojourner rover is left to run aimless circles round the craft ? and now NASA is about to give up on both of them...
Around 4 o'clock, the Mercedes, bearing Di and Dodi, would go to the Ritz, followed by Paul in the Range Rover. For the next three hours, Paul remained at the hotel, where, according to several employees, he had a couple of glasses of Ricard pastis at one of the hotel bars. At 7 p.m., Dourneau drove the couple from the Ritz to Dodi's apartment near the Arc de Triomphe. It was 7:05, and Paul considered himself off duty...
...waiting at the back entrance for the Mercedes S-280 to be driven to the door. French police now say it was Dodi's bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones who decided to switch drivers: to have Dourneau, who had driven the couple all day, take the wheel of the Range Rover to decoy the paparazzi and have Paul drive Dodi and Diana. It is impossible to judge from the jerky, heavily edited tape whether Paul was steady or wobbling as he prepared for his assignment. In the last image of him alive, Paul pulls away from the curb at a normal...