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Until digital, record technology had not changed much in principle since the Edison cylinder. On conventional LPs, called analog recordings, images of sound waves picked up by a microphone are traced into vinyl grooves; a kind of aural photograph is "developed" when a stylus retraces the grooves and re-creates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Think Small: Here Come CDs | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

Environmentalists complained that the bill limits judicial review, glosses over technological difficulties and excludes various stages of site selection from tough environmental scrutiny. The bill does not endorse any particular storage technology, but the most likely approach will employ long, narrow metal canisters, to be loaded with spent fuel, embedded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Hot for the Usual Burial | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

On the outskirts of Denver, a storehouse of potential death sprawls across 27 sq. mi. of rolling prairie. It is the site of the U.S. Army's Rocky Mountain Arsenal, which produced weapons and chemical agents until 1969. It now harbors corroded canisters of mustard gas, lethal phosphorus wastes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Rockies Menace | 12/27/1982 | See Source »

Casablanca is exactly 40 years old. It opened in New York in late fall, 1942. At the time, the real Germans were locked around Stalingrad, and the French scuttled their fleet in Toulon Harbor rather than surrender it to the Reich. In Hollywood's version, civilization was dressed in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: We'll Always Have Casablanca | 12/27/1982 | See Source »

This entertaining tale is embedded in a rather stylized theatrical framework. The Leading Player (Rich Dikeman), somewhere between Brecht/Weill's Streetsinger and Family Feud's Richard Dawson in character, acts as both cynical observer and cheerful encourager, alternately telling the story and creating it. Accompanied by an amorphously mobile chorus...

Author: By Jean-christophe Castelli, | Title: Holy Roman Angst | 11/11/1982 | See Source »

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