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...Iosif Shklovskii, 68, maverick Soviet astrophysicist and radio astronomer who made basic discoveries about neutron stars, quasars and novas (exploding stars), and also led the Soviets' search for extraterrestrial intelligence; of undisclosed causes; in Moscow. In the mid-1960s he posited that some intense radio emissions came from advanced alien civilizations, but they proved to be from quasars. Shklovskii's 1966 collaborative book with U.S. Astronomer Carl Sagan, Intelligent Life in the Universe, is still considered the basic treatise on the prospects for life beyond earth...
With brilliant decor and alien music, Robbins gives this ballet a fresh-as- tomorrow look, but the choreography blends fairly closely with two other strong Robbins works now in repertory, Piano Pieces and the brief Andantino. And as always, Robbins nods to the dances of his mentor George Balanchine, particularly swift, sharply etched Rubies and the propulsive Agon. He is experimenting with a new kind of music, and how far he will go is unclear. But in the meantime he puts on a hell of a show...
...eerie how Madson several years ago seemed to prophesy events when he wrote about earlier eras: "For this was alien land, not only in physical appearance but in its harsh rejection of familiar custom; it forced people into new ways of looking at the land and themselves and changed them forever." Sometimes it seems to Madson that the prairie is throwing off the predatory creatures who have filled it and damaged it. That could be the ultimate irony. The U.S. is exhausting its topsoil and a few decades down the road could suffer from food shortages, not surpluses...
...younger brother to a village in upstate New York, to the tidy, stultifying suburban home of Aunt Mona, the late husband's sister. Stunned by her losses and longing for the old days "before everybody started dying," Justin mopes and takes solitary bike rides through this alien Yankee territory. On one such foray, she discovers a tumbledown hut by the side of a pond and decides to investigate. When she sees a woman inside, lying on a blanket and reading a book, Justin screams...
...learning how to cope with their recurring symptoms. Many are able to continue most of their ordinary activities with the help of lightweight braces and portable respirators. Institute doctors also recommend that they simply rest more, which enables them to conserve the energy to carry on. This prescription is alien to most of the patients. "Polio survivors are very strong people," says Frederick Maynard, director of the post-polio clinic at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor. "It goes against their whole approach to life to suddenly take the easy way out." But once they...