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Last week in the Pioneer control room at NASA's Ames Research Center, in Mountain View, California, project manager Fred Wirth watched Pioneer's data, in the form of multicolored blocks of numbers flashing across a computer screen. To make the best use of the spacecraft's dwindling power, he has shut down all but three of its 11 scientific instruments, and by early next year only one--Van Allen's cosmic ray detector--will be able to function. Citing operational costs and the diminishing scientific return, NASA has ordered Wirth to halt all communications with Pioneer next year...
That is melancholy news not only for Wirth and other members of the Pioneer team but also for astronomer Frank Drake and his crew at the nearby Mountain View headquarters of seti. There, scientists hoping to pick up radio signals from a distant civilization have been using Pioneer's signals to test the efficacy of their detection systems. Says Drake: "It's been our prime diagnostic tool...
...gofer and advance man for Democratic campaigns in the 1980s--it was on the 1984 Hart campaign that he met ex-cop Marceca--he became known as a teller of tall tales, often turning his bit parts into leading roles. In 1986, after working on Colorado Representative Tim Wirth's successful Senate bid, Livingstone landed a job he was happy to call "director of transition." The job consisted of moving furniture and boxes from Wirth's old office...
...conference on environment and development, which was marred by deep distrust and finger pointing among participating nations. "That was just two years ago, and you couldn't even talk about population." In contrast, the unexpected consensus in Cairo left delegates bubbling about a "watershed in world history." Timothy Wirth, the U.S. Undersecretary of State for global affairs, who earned high praise for helping guide the initially fractious group toward agreement, called the consensus a rare victory for the U.N. "It's hard enough to get 180 members of the U.S. Congress to agree on anything, much less 180 nations," Wirth...
...Vatican is not likely to sign off on it. The new text places priority on making family planning available to reduce the need for abortions. It says abortion should not be encouraged as a method of family planning and its legality should be left to individual countries. Tim Wirth, the U.S. Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs, told TIME senior writer Eugene Linden that most countries had signed on to the compromise language. "We won," Wirth told Linden Thursday night. Still, many delegates are furious at the Vatican for stalling the talks while it pressed its abortion stand...