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...Israelites' liberation was not completed when the last Egyptian gave up his pursuit. Free and independent, the people made a covenent with their God and with each other, a compact of morality and equity. They tried to capture the spirit of liberation, the excitement of freedom and to weave them into the fabric of everyday society...
BUNK JOHNSON: THE KING OF THE BLUES (American Music). For New Orleans jazz purists, this may be the most eagerly awaited reissue of the past three decades. These classic 1944 sides -- first recorded on acetate and now available on compact disc -- capture the remarkable tone and timing of the man who was Louis Armstrong's early idol and whose comeback in the '40s helped launch a traditional-jazz revival...
...breakthrough idea was the recognition that the fuel would burn more efficiently if it was compressed before it was heated. According to Bethe, Ulam approached Teller with a two-stage H-bomb design that used the shock waves from an A-bomb to compact the hydrogen and ignite the H-bomb. Teller adapted Ulam's design, using the energy of the A-bomb's radiation rather than the force of its shock waves to achieve the necessary compression. It was a bomb of this design, code named Mike, that exploded on Nov. 1, 1952, on the Pacific island of Elugelab...
Most likely to bring Elvis back to life. With revolutionary speed, music lovers are replacing their favorite old scratched-up 45s and 33s with shiny compact discs. The complete works of almost all major artists, from Rachmaninoff to the Rolling Stones, are being released in the new format. At up to $18 a pop, CDs are costly, but the tones they produce are astonishingly crisp and clear. Pressed between CDs and cassette tapes, the venerable vinyl long-playing record is being relegated to memory lane...
...provide the brute force that is the substitute for political legitimacy in the Marxist- Leninist system. Now all of a sudden, the No. 1 man in the Kremlin was saying he would not back them up and that they had to find a way of making a genuine social compact with their own people, or fall. Hence the most amazing events of 1989 -- and of the decade: one after another, with breathtaking speed, the communist dictatorships of Eastern Europe came tumbling down...