NASA 'Robonaut' prepares for spacewalking duties The next generation of spacewalkers could fix faulty satellites and space stations without breaking a sweat, needing a meal or expecting a paycheck. Already the first one, a metal humanoid known as Robonaut, has developed an impressive level of dexterity.

The baby eagle story Once upon a time There was a baby eagle living in a nest perched on a cliff overlooking a beautiful valley with waterfalls and streams, trees and lots of little animals, scurrying about enjoying their lives.

Earth and Sky "Each day's segment is designed to guide your eye to something you can see that night, or the next morning before dawn. It might be a constellation, a star, or a planet. Or it might be a celestial event, such as an eclipse. Or, just for fun, on some days Deborah might take you (in your imagination) on a trip to another planet, to give you the view from there. And the best thing is, you don't need any special equipment to enjoy Tonight's Sky. You just need to look up..."

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The best article yet on the Microsfot breakup - a well deserved satire . January 2001--U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who made the ruling last June that the Microsoft Corp. be split into separate companies, has created further controversy by ordering Kleenex, Jell-O and Scotch tape to make everybody stop asking for a Kleenex, some Jell-O and a roll of Scotch tape "and start asking for a tissue, some gelatin or a roll of that clear sticky tape," to keep things fair. Industry analysts expressed concern as Kleenex stock blew sky-high, Jell-O wavered and Scotch tape held firm.

Feds Urged to Beef Up Spying Congress must give federal police more eavesdropping abilities and increase the budgets of spy agencies, members of a federal commission are recommending. The Justice Department is "overly cautious" when forwarding requests for wiretaps and electronic surveillance to a secret court established in 1978 for that purpose, Paul Bremer, the National Commission on Terrorism chairman, said Thursday.

Company to Fly First Web Server in Space A startup satellite company announced Saturday it is partnering with one of the world's leading computer companies to put what it claims to be the first Web server in orbit.

Top Ten Algorithms "Great algorithms are the poetry of computation," says Francis Sullivan of the Institute for Defense Analyses' Center for Computing Sciences in Bowie, Maryland. He and Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have put together a sampling that might have made Robert Frost beam with pride--had the poet been a computer jock. Their list of 10 algorithms having "the greatest influence on the development and practice of science and engineering in the 20th century" appears in the January/February issue of Computing in Science & Engineering. If you use a computer, some of these algorithms are no doubt crunching your data as you read this.