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...that when it 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...
...finished third at IRAs and won Sprints in dramatic come-from-behind fashion. The Harvard freshman boat also finished third at IRAs but second in Sprints. Those crews not only competed well in their own right, but by providing intrasquad competition, they helped build the varsity into the unbeatable specimen that won every race by open water...
...intimidating specimen at 6’2”, 200 lbs., Schaffer’s exterior is belied by his goofy confidence—part star athlete, part class clown...
...into a collection now and pull a specimen that was collected back in the 1800s off the shelf, and pull out stomach contents to find out what it ate,” Hsieh says...
...there is some doubt that the calendar would have found popularity with a wide audience. One model, Jonathan Pitts-Wiley, confessed to The Daily News that he “had the chest of a 12-year-old boy.” As Pitts-Wiley is scarcely an atypical specimen of Yale manhood, we can only conclude that the Yale calendar initiative suffered grave problems from its inception...