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...years ago. And since very little is actually known about the primordial soup from which life emerged, they hope the Rosetta mission will help them unlock the secrets of how it all began on Earth - or perhaps even elsewhere in the universe. Hence the name, inspired by the Rosetta Stone, the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics. Rosetta is an ambitious and technically challenging mission. It will not be easy to keep a rendezvous in 2014 with a comet tearing through space near Jupiter. The 165-kg-payload orbiter is to chase, circle and remotely study the comet, as well...
...sets across the rusting roofs of Stone Town, the cry of the local muezzin merges with the chimes from a Hindu temple and drifts skyward. The brilliant-hued canopy above me flaps lazily in the evening breeze that blows in from the Indian Ocean. I'm dining in the roofless rooftop restaurant of the Emerson & Green hotel on Zanzibar, the semi-autonomous island off Tanzania, one of the most romantic spots on the planet. Once the opulent palace of a wealthy Swahili trader, the hotel has just 10 rooms, but each one is exquisite: the North room features a large...
...shuffling of the nation’s top teams and the emergence of schools such as St. Lawrence and Wisconsin onto the scene is a far cry from the days when the top four teams of Minnesota, Minnesota-Duluth, Harvard and Dartmouth were more or less set in stone...
...think this is probably the first year where eight teams truly would have been a great thing,” Stone said, in reference to next year’s expansion to a Frozen Eight format. “Last year everybody wants it, but this year, truly you could...
...look towards the remainder of this regular season to secure its place in the Frozen Four.”Bottom line is that everyone is in control of their own destiny for the most part, so we need to take care of our own business,” Stone said...