EarthWatch

	Journey to Mars The international crew prepared for months. Then on February 8, 1996, at 00:01 Greenwich Mean Time, the cyber-journey blasted off, marking the start of the most ambitious online space simulation to date.

	Surfing the Sahara Middle-schoolers in Michigan help archeologists in Egypt excavate a fourth-century monastery.

	Net of the North In the far reaches of northern Canada, the Inuit tribe enters the space age with computers and wireless technology. Their plan? Use the Net to save ancestral lands and build links among the widespread Inuits.

	The Buckshire 8 With an idea and a modem, animal-rights activist Cari Bucher saved eight chimps slated to undergo corrosive scientific testing.

	To Catch a Thief When farmers and elephants vie for the same bananas in Malaysia, the Net (and a few orbiting satellites) help solve a growing dilemma.

	Amazon Connection Scientists and environmentalists have enlisted the Internet in their critical rearguard effort to protect the great rainforest of the Amazon Basin.

	Iceland's Lifeline In a land famous for its fierce winter storms, the highway accident rate is unexceptional -- thanks to universal access to constantly updated information on weather and road conditions.

	The Journey North The Internet has allowed 25,000 students to work side-by-side with scientists as they trace a continent wide digital map of butterfly migrations.

	Surfing the Galaxies The Bradford telescope is located on the barren moors of West Yorkshire in England; the astronomer, in Russia. Still, man and machine connect via the Internet.