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...BLUE NILE: HATS (A&M). A trio of ethereally rocking Scotsmen, the Blue Nile weaves a sound mosaic that is part sci-fi parable and part Arcadian fantasy. Gentle, uninsistent and insinuating, a single listen to The Downtown Lights could convert anyone this side of an Aerosmith fan to full-fledged Nile fever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: May 14, 1990 | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

...California Edison, which is putting up half of the money (the rest is coming from the Los Angeles department of water and power). When electrical power passes through a wire, it creates a magnetic field. A metal plate moving through that field can, by a process known as induction, convert the magnetic force back into electricity. When such a metal plate is suspended from the bottom of a battery-run car, the vehicle can pick up power simply by moving down an electrified road. For maximum performance the plate needs to glide within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: L.A.'s High-Watt Highway | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...this sense, however, I am glad that liberalism has won another convert. Although he won't admit it, Sneider is not a "progressive conservative," but a pragmatic liberal. David L. Lessing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Liberalism by Any Other Name | 4/21/1990 | See Source »

Harvard hopes it can reach a two-year option agreement with NHS. Under such an arrangement, NHS would have two years to find a developer to convert the land--called the "ledge site"--into housing, probably for low-income residents. If that search were successful, Harvard would officially sell the land at "an agreed upon price," McCluskey said...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Harvard Will Conclude Mission Hill Negotiations | 4/4/1990 | See Source »

Until now. Thanks to advances in technology, Gershwin's piano rolls have been rescued from oblivion. Under the supervision of Gershwin scholar Artis Wodehouse, an optical scanner was used to convert the holes that activate the keys into computer files that can be understood by today's music synthesizers. Last week's performance on ABC's Good Morning America was played by a Yamaha Disklavier, a $20,000 grand piano that comes with a computer disk drive. A book of piano scores, transcribed by computer, is scheduled to be released later this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Play It Again, George | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

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