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...probe comes in two parts: an orbiter that will stay aloft to conduct atmospheric studies and a lander that will descend to the surface. Dubbed Beagle 2, after Charles Darwin's famous specimen-collecting ship, the lander is only 3 ft. wide when packed for flight, but on the ground it will open like a flower and deploy an impressive array of equipment. Among the instruments are a drill capable of digging 5 ft. below the surface, 12 ovens that can heat samples to some 1,600ºF to generate carbon dioxide and a mass spectrometer to identify carbon isotopes, along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Destination Mars | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

...Sting, who briefly lost the records of how much he was worth; and stumble-prone President Gerald Ford, who dropped his laptop. A computer retrieved from a burning house is on display, as is one crushed under the wheels of a shuttle bus and another rescued from a cruise ship that sank to the bottom of the Amazon. As with more than 90% of the drives that come here, the data from each of these machines were recovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fried Your Drive? | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

...comes to searching for life, the Europeans have the edge this time. The esa probe comes in two parts: an orbiter that will stay aloft to conduct atmospheric studies and a lander that will descend to the surface. Dubbed Beagle 2, after Charles Darwin's famous specimen-collecting ship, the lander is only 91 cm wide when packed for flight, but on the ground it will open like a flower and deploy an impressive array of equipment. Among the instruments are a drill capable of digging 1.5 m below the surface, 12 ovens that can heat samples to some 870?C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Destination Mars | 6/8/2003 | See Source »

...building shook like a ship. I sheltered with my daughters in a doorframe. That's why we're still alive." FATMA FERHANI, resident of the town of Rouiba, Algeria, near the epicenter of an earthquake that killed more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Jun. 2, 2003 | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...overthrow photographs of joyful North Koreans celebrating the demise of their oppressor. Kim keeps the public in constant fear of a U.S. attack to maintain his grip on power. Schoolchildren are instructed to chant "The U.S. is our worst enemy" in front of the U.S.S. Pueblo, an American spy ship captured by the North Koreans in 1968 that is still on display on the banks of the Daedong River in Pyongyang. They win school sporting contests by being the first to use a wooden sword to lop off the limbs of an effigy of a U.S. soldier. "North Koreans' loyalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joining the Club | 5/14/2003 | See Source »

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