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Whatever discoveries the trio of missions make, they are almost certain to rekindle some of the thrill of space exploration for a world that has seen precious little of it lately. Says Squyres: "Hey, if you can't have fun building spacecraft and sending them to Mars, give it up, man!" --Reported by Dan Cray/Los Angeles and Leo Cendrowicz/Brussels
...mission capable of detecting past and present life, it will be ours," says planetary scientist Colin Pillinger, a professor at Britain's Open University and the man who dreamed up the project. Whatever discoveries the trio of missions make, they are almost certain to rekindle some of the thrill of space exploration for a world that has seen precious little of it lately. Says Squyres: "Hey, if you can't have fun building spacecraft and sending them to Mars, give...
...professor’s assumptions. There is no impetus to consider the merits and drawbacks of a radically different point of view. Any automaton can amass pre-processed arguments on both sides of an issue and take one side or the other while never approaching the sublime thrill of creating an innovative idea...
...witty Californian future politician who revolutionized the Quincy Grille. An often-elusive lover of theater and Irish verse. A soft-spoken director and musician from Ohio. A die-hard Celtics fan who hopes to right injustice through documentary film. A thrill-seeking Bostonian who spent a summer investigating the patterns of Dominican migration. A government concentrator who wants to understand race relations. An aspiring human rights lawyer from England. A musician with a passion for linguistics who makes sushi and memorizes Beatles trivia...
...will miss the writing aspect of this job a great deal. Unless you’ve tried it yourself and have been immersed perhaps a little further than expected, the thrill of newspaper writing is hard to describe. Aside from the ephemeral pride that comes with seeing one’s name in print (hopefully above a worthwhile story), there is the formidable challenge of forging interesting prose out of occasionally uninteresting material. To be sure, there are those rare exceptions when stories are so compelling that they’ll write themselves, but for the most part sportswriting...