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...ZAMBIA Solar Eclipse Delights and Puzzles Africa Thousands of tourists, scientists and New Age mystics traveled to Africa to watch the first total solar eclipse of the new millennium. But many African traditionalists remained firmly indoors, believing the darkening of the sun to be a bad omen. Zambia declared a national holiday as it hosted an influx of up to 20,000 tourists. While war-torn Angola issued millions of pairs of protective glasses, many in Zimbabwe watched through folded crisp packets. Wildlife observers said animals seemed confused by the sudden switch between darkness and full daylight...
...astronomy, as in life, the big events always happen in threes. Today's example: The first full solar eclipse of the millennium occurred on the Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice, and when the sun finally goes down tonight, Mars will be at its brightest in over a decade...
...Felipe is no luxury resort. Few of the settlements have electricity. But refrigerators run on propane and computers on solar panels. Cell phones substitute for land lines. E-mail is offered through The Net, a computer service run by physicist Tony Colleraine, who retired early from defense contractor General Atomics and now hustles Mexican businesses to advertise on www.sanfelipe.com.mx...
...Solar-powered incubators b) Their own e-mail addresses and domain names c) Free pacifiers with $10 purchase d) SPF-30 diaper-rash creams...
Large-scale excursions, like Simonson's current 2001 Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition (they are searching for further evidence of exploits of the men in tweed), take along laptops, satellite phones and solar-power generators. And a technology specialist: it's his job to handle video and stills editing and encoding with a Panasonic Toughbook (a bomb-resistant little unit with a waterproof keyboard, a magnesium-alloy case and a shock-mounted hard drive). When that's done, he transmits the content via the group's satellite phones to the website team in Seattle that posts it on the site. Going...