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...clue may exist. Spectrographic studies of Sirius A, the German researchers note, show that it has a metallic content higher than normal for stars of its type. The excess metal, they say, could have been showered on Sirius A when its red giant companion collapsed and exploded. The fact that no other evidence of an explosion exists, and that most astronomers say it should, does not disturb Schlosser. "Because of Sirius," he says, "we may have to change our theories about the life and metamorphosis of stars." --By Leon Jaroff. Reported by Andrea Dorfman/New York and William McWhirter/Bonn
...came from the welfare rolls of Chicago." Still driven by the restless ambition that pulled him out of the ghetto, the chairman of Chicago-based Johnson Publishing, the largest U.S. black-owned company (1984 revenues: $139 million) works twelve-hour days and shows no signs of slacking off. Not content to preside over Ebony and Jet magazines, three radio stations and a thriving cosmetics business, Johnson has launched two new ventures: a syndicated TV show called Ebony/ Jet Showcase! and EM: Ebony Man, which he calls a "fashionable-living magazine for black...
While most American farmers are suffering the effects of the worst a agricultural depression since the 1930s, the catfish farmers in Humphreys County, Miss., are content and prosperous. That is because the catfish business is booming. Mississippi accounts for some 80% of the nation's crop, and Humphreys County is the catfish capital. This year an estimated 185 million lbs. of catfish will be processed, more than four times the 1980 level. The commercial value of the crop is about $255 million...
...play opens and closes almost musically, with overlapping scenes and monologues that voice interlocking themes. Each element of the complex structure echoes its content. In the first act the narrators are the women, and the action is the entwining of their friendship. In the second act the main narrators are the men, and the action is aggressive: once the architect has proposed his project, his envious friend undertakes to derail it. In the public as well as the private combat, the question is the same. Do people really want freedom, or do they simply want to want it? Do they...
...truth, overtly political films, like some of Zhang's work, still have no chance of being screened in China without undergoing major cuts by the censorship board. But Xu's avoidance of political fare doesn't mean she is content to churn out the clichéd boy-meets-girl comedies that are the mainstay of Chinese cinema. Her next two projects will tackle serious topics. One is a Tang-dynasty drama that she says will demonstrate that "court life is no different from street life." The other is an examination of post-9/11 America...