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Hitting the Wall The shifting of continental plates that created the Indonesian archipelago also gave Selayar Island its unique geography?the western side of the island slopes gently into the sea, but the eastern side's verdant hills plunge directly into the roiling surf, as if they were hacked in...
These walls off Selayar can be explored solely by scuba divers. The seafloor starts its descent to the continental shelf a few meters below the waves, then rapidly turns vertical and beyond the reach of even the most deep-lunged of snorkelers. The sensation during that first wall dive is...
The best picture the world has ever seen wasn't snapped by a professional photographer but by a man of science, the former U.S. astronaut William Anders. Taken in December 1968 from Apollo 8 - the first manned vehicle in lunar orbit - the image is of the earth rising above the...
A lot can happen in three years. Steven Spielberg's last movie, AI, was set in 2051, in a bipolar world: sleek surfaces and a carnival-carnivore underbelly. Now, in Minority Report, it's 2054, and the future is more recognizable: tomorrow, only more so. Copies of USA Today flash...
The thought occurs in this week of the first Memorial Day since September 11 - an especially painful occasion, since the memories of those fallen in our latest war are so raw. It is as if they've just left the room. Memorial proposals such as the vertical columns of light...