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University of Connecticut Pro- NASA's Mars Odyssey was the first spacecraft to
fessor Jerry Yang, who cloned successfully reach Mars since two spacecraft
the first mammal in the U.S. were lost in 1999. The $300 million, 1.7-ton ship
(Amy, the calf) cloned a new was designed to search for water, map surface
animal - a cat that will not cause minerals and measure radiation levels on Mars,
allergic reactions in humans. possibly providing clues about extraterrestrial life
^ AP Photo/NASA
AP Photo/John Gaps III

Tip of a Lifetime
W aitress and struggling single m o th e r
o f tw o C o lleen G a lla g h e r w as given an
$ 1 1 ,0 0 0 tip by John Boc, c h ie f execu tive
o f M e rid ia n In vestm en ts, Inc. at C h ic a­
go's E xcalibur C lu b w h e re she w o rk e d .

Whiz Kid
C a lifo rn ia high school senio r T re v o r
Loflin scored a p erfect 1 6 0 0 on his SAT
AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett d esp ite th e h an d icap o f h avin g lived th e
A The first total solar eclipse of the past th re e years w ith his m o th e r and sis­
millennium created a spectacle of darks ters in th e back o f th e ir C hevy S uburb an
and lights over central Africa, where
crowds of astronomers and onlookers Homer's Odyssey
assembled to watch the event.
T h e O x fo rd English D ic tio n a ry , w h ich
traces th e c o in in g o f w o rd s, has cre d ite d
carto o n dad H o m e r Sim pson w ith p o p u ­
la rizin g , if not in ven tin g , his tra d e m a rk
" d 'o h ," w h ich th e O E D defin es as
off fhe wire! "exp ressin g fru s tra tio n at th e re a liza tio n
things have tu rn e d o u t b ad ly o r th a t one
has said o r d o n e s o m e th in g fo o lis h ."

Paleontologists found the
r The U.S. Food and Drug Cyborgs, creatures that are oldest-known dinosaur Strange Brew
half machine and half
Administration approved
N ASA a n n o u n ce d plans to send
fossils in Brazil. The fos­
animal, are no longer sci­
Gleevec, a breakthrough
cancer-fighting drug ence fiction. Researchers in sils date back to the Trias- u n m a n n e d s o la r-p o w e re d a irc ra ft over
H a w a iia n co ffee p la n ta tio n s to m o n ito r
which, unlike traditional Chicago fused the brain sic period (approximately th e o p tim u m tim es fo r grow ers to pick
cancer therapies, attacks of a lamprey eel with a 210 million years ago),
only cancer cells without small robot. The eel's brain when dinosaurs were first beans fo r th e m ost fla v o rfu l b re w .
also harming healthy cells finds light, then directs the developing, and may pro­
robot's wheels to move vide clues about how they
toward it. evolved. a