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...building become more important than its purpose? Why do some buildings become such reference points that they may never be torn down? After all, many works of architectural merit and structural solidity have been destroyed in the name of war or progress (witness New York City's Pennsylvania Station). Some buildings, it seems, put down foundations in the psyche of their location; they may grow old but will never become dated. Le Corbusier's chapel at Ronchamp is a certain survivor. Here are five others likely to outlive us all. --By Belinda Luscombe...
...measured the radio station that is one antiproton...and we listened to one proton...and we compared back and forth to see if they have the same oscillation ion frequency in the same field [to determine] if they have the same properties," Gabrielse said...
...chair, president and CEO of A.H. Belo Corporation, Decherd has led the company's emergence from the forest of medium-sized, family-owned newspapers into a national media company that reaches from a television station in Seattle-Tacoma to the Providence Journal-Bulletin newspaper...
...case of life imitating Arthur C. Clarke: A skittish computer malfunctions aboard a manned space station, putting a bid to retrieve a U.S. astronaut in jeopardy. Mir's main computer may not be a HAL 9000, but it has spent the last three days succesfully resisting all puny human attempts to restart it. The malfunctioning mainframe may prevent space shuttle Discovery from picking up the Australian-born Andrew Thomas this Friday, since NASA flight regs prohibit docking without an operational steering system on the other end. Now shuttle managers are meeting to decide whether to abandon Tuesday's launch altogether...
...course, the Mir computer has acted up many times before -- during the battered Russian station's string of misadventures last year -- and was successfully rebooted. But it's never baffled the folks in Moscow quite so much. Neither a reboot nor a replaced unit has brought it back online yet. Next up: A telemetry data upload and long-distance restart. The crew is hopeful: "They still have a lot of spares," said mission control spokesman Valery Lyndin. With luck, they'll find the glitch before it strikes up a chorus of "Daisy, Daisy...