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Pioneer will eventually cross that boundary but will be unable to convey the news to Earth. Unlike spacecraft operating closer to the sun, it cannot rely on solar panels to generate power. Instead it is equipped with a thermocouple-like generator heated by radiation from a clump of plutonium 238. Unfortunately, the radiation is also slowly degrading the generator, which is producing only two-thirds of its original output...
...number of English translators have stressed the strange and archaic nature of Homeric narrative, which is fair enough; it is strange and archaic, at least to us. But to those who heard it first, thousands of years ago, it must have seemed both familiar and wondrous. Fagles' translations vividly convey for contemporary readers the sense of stories being told aloud...
...information." CBS News president Andrew Heyward sees another problem with the news explosion. "We seem to have lost a sense of proportion," he says. "Everything is made to seem equally important, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the latest scandal in Washington. We lack the vocabulary to convey the true importance of some events, because we're always moving on to the next thing. It serves to trivialize the news...
...that question before images of the battered and dying and you risk seeming indifferent to grief. But not to ask it opens the way to aesthetic blackmail, allowing the fact of suffering to cancel your doubts about the pictures that convey it. Or try to. Goldin has felt the blows of the past decade or so as hard as anybody. You wish sometimes that her work were as acute as her pain...
...there, where I don't catch colds or use my hospitalization insurance. Here I'm sick so often, I can barely work. I can't help it, Mama." By reading out-loud these excerpts from The Woman Warrior, and from her other various books, Kingston was able to visibly convey her own feelings with a depth of emotion and realism that could not be garnered from the printed page...