Word: dust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...graduate student's discovery that a nebulous cloud of dust several trillion miles wide is shaped like a disk may give scientists clues as to how the earth was formed...
While doing thesis research in Chile this March, Ray Jayawardhana, a student in the department of astrophysics and a resident tutor in Quincy House, observed that a dust ring around the star astronomers refer to as HR 4796A was shaped like a disk, which may indicate the presence of planets...
Some of the artists do, however, have mild success in adapting the music. matchbox20 delivers a version of "Never Going Back Again" that produces a tension Fleetwood Mac never explored. Sister Hazel lives up to its reputation as a good adaptor of acoustic music in "Gold Dust Woman." One of pop's newest female sensations, Shawn Colvin, sings "The Chain" without Nicks' vulnerability, but with a level of sultriness that almost compensates. The sound comes across as mysterious and creative. But once again, hard to listen...
...seems to have risen to the challenge, combining an opulent style with extensive use of computer-generated effects to re-create the splendor of the ancient world. Almost all 1,192 shots in the 90-min. film include effects elements, whether it's a sprinkling of computer-generated desert dust or the vaporous Angel of Death. Some scenes would be virtually impossible to draw by hand, such as the flight of more than 16,000 Hebrews from Egypt and the spectacular 4-min. parting of the Red Sea--a sequence that is taking an estimated 300,000 man- and computer...
...Miles of middle-American farmland turn into a dust bowl...