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Fascinating Kristof column on whether Stephen Hatfill is the anthrax mailer.

Why did it take nine months to call in the bloodhounds, or to read Dr. Hatfill’s unpublished novel, “Emergence,” which has been sitting in the copyright office since 1998 and draws on his experiences in South Africa and Antarctica to recount a biological warfare attack on Congress?

I couldn’t agree more with Kritof’s focus on both presumption of innocence and getting to the truth.

Awesome NYT piece on the two Voyager craft:

In 1990, as its last act of planetary observation, Voyager 1 turned its camera on the receding scene of its triumphant journey and snapped a sequence of pictures of most of the Sun’s family. A mosaic of the pictures showed six of the nine planets in orbital array like diamonds laid out on black velvet. From 3.7 billion miles out, Earth was barely the size of a single pixel, or picture element.

Then both craft turned their attention forward, to the heliosphere and beyond. The Voyagers are expected to survive millions of years of interstellar travel, steadfast as ever. But silent, their computers and radios dead and the Sun receding into cosmic insignificance, the two spacecraft will have long since lost touch with their makers and the home they left behind in 1977.