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Five years ago, British scientist Colin Pillinger convinced the world's biggest medical-research charity, the Wellcome Trust, to bet on a project far beyond its usual scope: a probe to find life on Mars. Detecting life on other planets, he argued, would be a giant leap for mankind toward understanding the origins of life back on earth. But in 2003, the Beagle 2 probe - worth tens of millions of dollars, and carrying a gas-analysis unit bankrolled by Wellcome - disappeared without a trace into the Martian atmosphere. Four years later, scientists and funders alike are delighted...
...technology so it can be mass-produced cheaply. They also need a better method for treating sputum so it's ready for GCMS analysis. In 2009, Corbett will run a preliminary trial for them with 1,200 Zimbabweans suspected of having TB. If that evaluation goes well, the Wellcome Trust has said it will find a company to mass-produce the machine...
...months, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has itself resembled a superannuated soap, with the long-term future of the 85-year-old institution called into question as it lurches from embarrassing revelations about editorial lapses to high-level resignations and job cuts. Management has apologized for such breaches of trust as falsifying the results of a public vote held to name a cat on the children's show Blue Peter (producers rejected the winning entry, Cookie, in favor of Socks) and showing a trailer for the documentary A Year with the Queen with scenes shown out of sequence to suggest...
...estate’s reputation for opposing all changes to the playwright’s works, Scanlan obtained unique permission to “jump genres” as well as to engage Martin Pearlman, locally renowned music director of Boston Baroque, as a composer. “They trust Bob, as they have worked so much with him,” Pearlman says. Though the two radio plays already featured music, Scanlan always thought it didn’t quite fit. For a director whose greatest concern with Beckett is achieving “formal perfection...
...response to norms generated in imperial centers. It is the result of a bloodless and slow-developing social revolution conducted over 40 years as a small society grew larger and immeasurably more complex, shook off its sense of derivative Englishness and its fear of American domination and learned to trust its own talents...