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...elsewhere the ship photographed a crater whose floor seems to have swelled up from beneath--its central peak pushed above its rim--probably the result of slushy seas deforming the crater after it was created. "We'd never seen the surface at this resolution," says James Head, a Galileo scientist. "It's a little bit like putting it under a microscope...
...help shape the next? At a party last week in New York City, we asked some of TIME's cover subjects to talk about the people who had most influenced them. These speakers included President Clinton, author Toni Morrison, director Steven Spielberg, actress Mary Tyler Moore, statesman Mikhail Gorbachev, scientist James Watson and entrepreneur Bill Gates. Other notables toasted their heroes, including some of the 84 cover subjects who attended (for a list, see page 20). It was a fascinating convergence of extraordinary people. "President Clinton and I have been trying to meet each other," noted Gorbachev. "It never worked...
...mile-wide rock of doom, known as 1997 XF11, will pass a comfortable 600,000 miles, or more than two moon orbits, from the earth -- not the tight and potentially catastrophic 30,000-mile squeeze that Marsden suggested. ?It?s all in a day?s work,? said JPL scientist Don Yeomans -- who also stopped just short of accusing Marsden and the International Astronomical Union of scaremongering. ?Why did they put out a press release before putting out the data and consulting with our colleagues?? chided Yeomans. ?I don?t know...
Panelists linked the lack of women in scienceto differences between how men and women aretreated in the classroom and the specialchallenges that they face when playing the rolesof both career scientist and mother...
About 30 students attended the event, the first in a three-part series entitled, "The Rare Woman Scientist...