Ben Cichy Phoenix is the first Mars Scout mission.

And such firms have the experience to scout the globe for the right investment locations.

Conestoga is planned for flight in the near future, development of the Italian San Marco Scout has not yet started (although its forerunner, the United States Scout, has been operated for many years) and the Ariane 5 derivative programme should be completed in 1999.

Worse, using social, rather than medical, criteria for rationing treatments is a slippery slope. One need only recall Seattle s notorious God committee, which in the early 1960s allocated then scarce kidney dialysis on the basis of criteria like earnings, church involvement, and even Scout membership.

But when we say that an Eagle Scout in a high school classroom who has a locked parked car in the parking lot and a penknife in it has to be suspended from school, I think we may have gone a little too far with zero tolerance.

But male role models for boys that say it's all right to be smart they've got dads, they've got pastors, they've got Cub Scout leaders, but ultimately, six hours a day, five days a week they're spending in a classroom, and most of those classrooms are not places where men exist.

A metaphor will serve here Where elite mathematicians and statisticians and theorists often serve as architects in the expanding realm of science, the remaining large majority of basic applied scientists, including a large portion of those who could be said to be of the first rank, are the ones who map the terrain, they scout the frontiers, they cut the pathways, they raise the buildings along the way.