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...very year that a strong El Nino coincided with the greatest failure of the monsoon in recent times. "The way I think of it," says Fairbanks, "is as an orchestra. Sometimes the monsoon and El Nino play together, and sometimes they play apart. But where's the conductor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fury Of El Nino | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

...also advocates the establishment of a conductor's council, where the leaders of the close harmony groups and the choruses could meet and establish greater cooperation...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Capella Groups Attract Growing Range of Voices | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...extremely excited to be a major conductor in a atmosphere where music is so loved by the students," he said...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Capella Groups Attract Growing Range of Voices | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...this month in New York City, he'll be dancing to the beat of his own heart. A device modified by artist Christopher Janney will capture electrical impulses passing between Baryshnikov's head, heart and feet and use them to regulate musical accompaniment, making the dancer's body the conductor. "My work is like a visual jazz," says Janney. Amplifying nature's rhythms is Janney's specialty. He built what may be the largest piece of interactive public art ever--a 180-ft.-high mosaic of colored glass--in the Miami airport. What's interactive about it? The mosaic reacts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techwatch: Jan. 12, 1998 | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...Fairchild's research arm and later became Grove's mentor as CEO of Intel) believed you could store those charges with an integrated circuit made by sandwiching metal oxide and silicon into an electrical circuit called an MOS transistor. Unlike trickier semiconductors, silicon is both a wonderful conductor of electrical charges and a nearly bottomless sink for heat, meaning it doesn't melt down as you push electrons under its surface at nearly light speed. Because it is made from refined sand, silicon is abundant as the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDREW GROVE: A SURVIVOR'S TALE | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

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