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Traveling at perhaps 20km a second, the giant mass of iron and nickel crosses western Australia in under a minute and dives into the atmosphere, its path traced by the hiss and crackle of electrophonic noise, echoed by thunderous sonic booms as the air slows it through the sound barrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmic Dreaming | 7/29/2004 | See Source »

Lyme disease is nothing to fool around with, especially for those in the groups at highest risk--children ages 5 to 14 and adults ages 50 to 59. Caused by a spirochete bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi that is transmitted via the bite of the so-called deer tick, the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: The Season of the Tick | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

That night at home, Freilich studied his friend's X rays. Clients of Total Health Screening, in Sydney's east, are scanned from head to pelvis by a $A1.4 million computed tomography (CT) machine. A procedure that takes about 40 sec. produces 870 images of the internal organs. Freilich analyzes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Lies Within | 6/1/2004 | See Source »

But the imminent strike of an asteroid 100 feet in diameter, slamming into the atmosphere with enough force to generate the effects of a nuclear weapon? Well, just maybe.

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Oh Crap, an Asteroid | 4/29/2004 | See Source »

Complaint No. 2 is the beaver's maniacal devotion to felling trees, which provide it with food and building material. An adult can gnaw through a tree six inches in diameter in 15 minutes. In the Southeast, beavers cause millions of dollars of damage to timber forests every year. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: I'll Be Dammed! | 3/29/2004 | See Source »

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