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Salon.com March 28, 2002 P. Smith |
Air travel's communications killer Twenty-five years ago, the greatest disaster in airline history killed 538 people, in part because of a radio glitch that still hasn't been fixed...  |
Salon.com March 26, 2002 Paul Festa |
"Indira" by Katherine Frank Indira Gandhi led the most populous democracy of her time, but finally, ruthless and paranoid, she couldn't resist the temptation of tyranny...  |
Science News March 23, 2002 |
TimeLine: March 19, 1932 Explosions used to locate oil fields in southwest... Invention hastens coming of television in movie theatre... Dial telephones add almost 70,000 to jobless...  |
Wired March 2002 Tom Standage |
Monster in a Box The inside story of an ingenious 18th-century chess-playing machine that thrilled crowds, terrified opponents, and won like clockwork...  |
Science News March 16, 2002 |
TimeLine: March 12, 1932 Scientists unearth new portrait of King Tut's girl-wife... Tapping of the atom's energy achieved in new experiment... Scientists learning secret of how plants manufacture food...  |
Science News March 9, 2002 |
TimeLine: March 5, 1932 Weird leather costumes protect electric workers... Neutron, atomic brick, may solve mystery of cosmic rays... Solid matter composed of numerous atoms in blocks...  |
Reason March 2002 Glenn Garvin |
He Was Right Looking back at the Goldwater moment...  |
Science News March 2, 2002 |
TimeLine: February 27, 1932 Pussy willows have serious work in the world... Deep-sea fish produce light under stimulation of drug... Rocks in Utah canyon yield seaweeds of primeval date...  |
Salon.com February 27, 2002 Stephen Lemons |
Hitler's clairvoyant A new biography tells the bizarre tale of the Jewish psychic who met with the future Fuhrer for private sessions and predicted his rise...  |
Science News February 23, 2002 |
TimeLine: February 20, 1932 Light floods monument for celebration... Treatment with heat affects quality of optical glass... Sensitive electric eye counts light quanta...  |
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