Friday, March 1, 2002

Apple.com HomePage and iPhoto Album Contest And the winners are... Apple congratulates all the people that submitted iTools photo galleries, especially the six winners. Check out the photo galleries. They are very nice. 6:18:24 PM    comment The New York Times Science Spacecraft Sees Possible Frozen Water on Surface of Mars The Mars Odyssey spacecraft has identified what appear to be large areas of ice on the red planet's surface, a discovery that could prove key to the search for life there, U.S. space scientists said on Friday. Odyssey, which began mapping the Martian surface last week, used a suite of gamma ray spectrometer instruments to detect significant amounts of hydrogen near the planet's south pole, which scientists said are most likely due to the presence of ice formed from water. 5:28:00 PM    comment CNN.com Report: Europa's conditions could nurture life February 28, 2002 A subsurface ocean may provide water and heat By Richard Stenger CNN This photo of Europa was taken by NASA's Jupiter probe, Galileo.   (CNN) -- A planetary scientist says a combination of physical conditions on one of the moons of Jupiter might not only make life possible but also encourage it to evolve. 3:03:19 PM    comment Apple - Hot News Multimedia Macbeth By Barbara Gibson Beetles and bats, serpents and scorpions, owls and falcons. They all come to life in a mesmerising new stage production of Macbeth, Shakespeare's haunting tale of lust for power and murder most foul. 1:54:54 PM    comment Yahoo! News Official: Al Qaida, Taliban Regroup By KATHY GANNON, Associated Press Writer GARDEZ, Afghanistan (AP) Al-Qaida and Taliban fighters are regrouping in the mountains of eastern Paktia province and just over the border in Pakistan, urging the faithful to wage holy war against U.S. forces, Afghan officials say. 1:34:49 PM    comment Scientific American News In Brief Scientists Create Polymer Material That Mends Itself March 1, 2002 Polymers can fulfill a wide variety of functions thanks to properties such as high strength, solvent resistance and insulation. Now scientists have manufactured a polymer that seems to have an additional and unique attribute: it can mend itself without outside help. According to a report published today in the journal Science, cracks in the material can be repaired indefinitely through relatively simple heating and cooling conditions. 11:50:33 AM    comment The Nando Times ABC courting David Letterman, sources say Entertainment By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer NEW YORK (March 1, 2002 12:16 p.m. EST) - ABC is trying to persuade David Letterman to bring his late-night talk show over from CBS, a bold move that would bump "Nightline" from the time slot it has held for two decades. Letterman's representatives are talking with ABC and CBS, where he has worked since moving from NBC in 1993, according to sources close to the negotiations who spoke on condition of anonymity. 10:25:08 AM    comment HSF - STS-109 NASA Columbia Launches, Heads to Hubble Space Telescope Space Shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew began their journey to the Hubble Space Telescope when they launched from Kennedy Space Center, Fla., Friday morning. Liftoff occurred at 5:22 a.m. CST (1122 GMT). Columbia is slated to grapple the orbital observatory and bring it into the payload bay early Sunday morning. While at Hubble, the crew will conduct five space walks to perform the servicing work. 9:58:31 AM    comment New York Times - Health Almost All in U.S. Have Been Exposed to Fallout, Study Finds: By JAMES GLANZ In a preliminary study that takes into account not only nuclear tests in Nevada but also nearly all American and Soviet nuclear tests conducted overseas until they were banned in 1963, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that virtually every person who has lived in the United States since 1951 has been exposed to radioactive fallout. " 8:35:01 AM    comment

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