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...latest spin on the fate of the Mars Polar Lander suggests that the vessel may have accidentally been guided by NASA to a touchdown in a canyon, where it broke apart on impact. This theory, put forward in the Denver Post by an unnamed Lockheed Martin scientist, has refocused attention on the state of affairs at America's aerospace agency, where a spate of recent high-profile (and high-priced) gaffes has led to declining confidence, with many saying the agency's cost- and time-cutting measures have led to negligence. In fact, the Polar Lander mission was billed...
That was the question on my mind after reading about the "New York Times Capsule" last Sunday. On the face of it, the concept of a millennial time capsule sounds simple enough: Create a vessel--sealed with late-20th century artifacts--with instructions that it should be opened no earlier than the year...
...second major challenge the Times faced was actually creating something that would last for a millennium--after all, that's an awfully long time. How can information be stored so that it will be readable in a thousand years? How can we insure the vessel won't be lost or destroyed? Possible solutions ranged from shooting the capsule into outer space to embedding the information in cockroach...
...aging strongman a propaganda victory, but then things haven't been going their way for some time now. The anti-Castro camp is fighting to keep Elian Gonzalez, who turned six Monday, from being reunited with his father in Cuba, after his mother and stepfather died when their vessel went down on the journey from Cuba. Elian, who was found clinging to an inner tube, was placed with relatives in Florida, and anti-Castro activists have showered him with toys and urged that he be allowed to stay to enjoy the freedom he'd be denied in Cuba. The almost...
Unlike traditional medications, the brave new drugs will be designed "rationally" on computer screens, using gene information as a blueprint. VEGF2, for example, is a synthetic gene that makes a protein that in turn stimulates new vessel growth. In a few years, predicts William Haseltine, the biotech industry's champion optimist and CEO of Human Genome Sciences, based in Rockville, Md., we will have genetically based drugs for almost every serious ailment--"things we couldn't really work on well before, whether it's osteoporosis or Alzheimer's." Nor will these drugs simply attack symptoms, as aspirin does. "That...