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...sound-bite century. Consider the famous passage from Paradise Lost, describing Eve in Eden, which is one of the culminating exhibits in Smith's celebration of Milton. The 20-line sentence contains 20 proper names: Enna, Prosperin, Dis, Ceres, Daphne, Orontes, Castalian, Nyseian, Triton, Cham, Ammon, Lybian Jove, Amalthea, Bacchus, Rhea, Abassin, Amara, Ethiop, Nilus, Assyrian. How many people nowadays (even among the exceptionally well-educated readers of TIME) know what all those words mean? I majored in classics at university, and there's a part of me that savors Milton's weaving of so much ancient literary history into...
...instruments. If Pioneer 11's electronic gear survives, it should produce a bonanza of data: 22 closeup color pictures of Jupiter, including the first of its polar regions; new studies of the planet's temperature, radiation levels and magnetic field; and the first measurements of Amalthea, smallest and innermost of Jupiter's 13 known moons.* Space Pioneer. No one is watching Pioneer 11's travels with more interest than another pioneer, Physicist James Van Allen, who scored the first triumph of American space science by discovering the radiation belts around the earth that now bear...
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