A brain is, after all is said and done, an interwoven web of electron pathways. From this maze of bio-logic circuitry are manifest the choices and actions by the "self" or what the "self" considers to be morally justified. But in the race to replicate the brain in a computer lab, what might the "self" do if the monetary prize is so high, the time too short, and the consequences of failure too life threatening? Competing for a $30 million prize, a team is developing an unmanned lunar rover that performs well, perhaps even a bit too well. Aerospace writer Midge McConnell becomes suspicious of...

Within months of the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Jimmy Doolittle lead his squadron of B-25's off the deck of the USS Hornet on a raid into the heart of the enemy. As the war in the Pacific progressed, B-25s, retrofitted with twelve 50 caliber machine guns, swept in at treetop level to wreak devastation on enemy shipping and airfields at Rabaul, New Guinea, Borneo, The Philippines and Formosa. Now, in another century, against another enemy, but again in the same locale, they were on a super-secret mission which would never be reported and officially denied. The Mighty B-25 Mitchell...