The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Washington - The surface of Mars once was "drenched" in water that could have supported life forms, though no direct traces of life have been detected, NASA said on Tuesday. The Mars Opportunity rover found the evidence. Opportunity and its twin, Spirit, have been examining the surface of the Red Planet for signs of past water. "Opportunity has landed in an area of Mars where liquid water once drenched the surface," said Edward Weiler, associate NASA administrator for space science, at a news conference in Washington. "This area would have been a good, habitable environment." Washington - The Bush administration insisted Monday that Haiti's exiled president was not kidnapped or strong-armed into fleeing, despite Jean-Bertrand Aristide's claims that the U.S. military forced him to leave. The Pentagon said as many as 2,000 U.S. troops could go to Haiti to help to curb violence that culminated Sunday in Aristide's departure. Gaza City, Gaza Strip - Gunmen shot and killed a well-known adviser to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in Gaza City early Tuesday, security officials said, Khalid al-Zaben was the best-known Palestinian to be killed in a growing power struggle in Gaza City. There is concern that with the weakening of Arafat's Palestinian Authority and a planned Israeli pullout from most of the Gaza Strip, a chaotic situation might result.
