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...long--no more than a month--before Mars' punishingly cold climate (-15[degrees]F by day but plunging as low as -125[degrees]F at night) kills it. The Pathfinder lander, also able to take readings, could function for up to a year. No matter when the machines wink out, however, Mars is unlikely to remain unattended. On Sept. 12, Global Surveyor, another robot probe, will arrive at the planet, settle into a 250-mile-high orbit and begin two years of mapping the surface. A second lander-and-orbiter pair is set to be dispatched Marsward in 1998, with...
...decades, the main criticism of the American church's annulment system, at least among conservatives, has been of its generosity. U.S. Catholics in 1994 received 54,463 annulments, 75% of all those granted worldwide and more than 90% of all they requested. Some people wink and call it "Catholic divorce." Others, like former Pilot editor Philip Lawler, are grim: "To speak in economic terms," he says, "the inflation of annulment has debased the currency of marriage...
...have a great time swaggering through his role, a not-always-convincing blend of male bravado and hangdog romanticism. As Frankie stares at him over her kitchen counter, Johnny surmises, "I bet I know what you're thinking now: he's too good to be true!" Friedland nails the wink-wink self-assurance of the line, but is almost equally convincing in an impulsive phone call to a radio station, admitting that he and Frankie are "great beauties neither one," but asking regardless for "the most beautiful music in the world...
...much of the distemper between the sexes to the fact that men can reproduce in near perpetuity, marrying and remarrying, having second and third families, with rarely a raised eyebrow about their right to do so. For men who have a late child, there's a nudge and a wink from your pals, a spread in People if you're Clint Eastwood, and a bump in the polls if you're Strom Thurmond. A trophy kid is so common among the '90s tycoons, you'd think it was a corporate perk, like stock options. Meanwhile, a woman's peak childbearing...
...chat online until your fingers are raw, but you still can't convey the emotional subtlety of tete-a-tete conversation. That's why emoticons were invented, those clever keyboard images designed to punctuate online palaver with a fillip of feeling. Some have become well known: ;-) is a wink and a smile (in other words, aren't I ironic?). But the art form has spread beyond its first primitive symbols to become an increasingly complex form of Net expression. Herewith a quick sampling of the latest in postliterate sign language...