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...last Tuesday, they encountered an empty Soviet MiG-23 fighter. Flying at an altitude of nearly 40,000 ft., the plane was without a pilot, and its canopy was gone. For fear of creating lethal falling debris, officials of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization refrained from ordering the craft shot down and instead told the U.S. pilots to escort it out to open sea. But the MiG ran out of fuel near the Belgian town of Kortrijk and crashed into a house, killing a 19-year...
Guess again. The blond (Joan Jeanrenaud) is a cellist by craft, and the longhair (Hank Dutt) plays, appropriately, the viola. Along with violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, they form the Kronos Quartet, the nation's most adventurous chamber-music ensemble. No Haydn or Mozart for this earnest foursome. Works by Charles Ives and Anton Webern are probably the creakiest items in their wide, of-today repertoire. It ranges from Steve Reich's Different Trains, in which synthesized voices, recorded railroad sounds and minimalist arpeggios are combined in a haunting memoir, to a growling, down- and-dirty setting of Jimi...
...architect at M.I.T., he took up furniture making after studying with spiritual leader Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry, India, during the 1930s. "The negation of the ego," says Nakashima, "is central in Indian philosophy. If you can negate your ego, you can develop." During World War II, Nakashima advanced his craft in an Idaho detention camp for Japanese Americans. There he learned about prejudice. He also learned woodworking from a fellow internee who had been trained as a carpenter in Japan...
...skis are small, engine-driven craft that scoot across the water. Like their landbound cousins, motorcycles and snowmobiles, they are quick, maneuverable, noisy and a rush to ride. Costing $4,000 on average, the scooters can reach speeds of 40 m.p.h. Sales are believed to have doubled since 1984, and there are now over 200,000 personal watercraft in use from coast to coast...
...riding at night. In Florida, where eleven deaths have occurred since 1987, the state plans to outlaw such reckless maneuvers as weaving through powerboat traffic. Local authorities in Arizona and Oregon have restricted the use of personal watercraft to designated areas on certain lakes. New Hampshire has banned the craft entirely from all lakes and ponds of less than 75 acres, and last week restricted the craft, with some exceptions, from coming within 300 ft. of the shoreline...