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...glacier is a river of ice fed by mountaintop snowfall. When the ice becomes thick and heavy enough, it starts to flow like an extremely viscous fluid, its uphill section always advancing, its end, or terminus, moving forward or back, depending on factors like how fast the terminus melts or breaks off into the sea. Although glaciologists can describe a glacier's movements and predict its effects, they cannot explain why the Hubbard Glacier or any of the 15 or so smaller frozen masses that are also surging in the Yakutat area -- albeit harmlessly -- began to speed up, while others...
...musically is an unlikely figure: Manuel Rosenthal, 82, a French conductor and composer who speaks no German and has never commanded a Ring before. Rosenthal leads a symphonic performance noteworthy for its clarity and color. At its best, as in Die Walkure, Rosenthal's view of the score is fluid and graceful; at its worst, as in Gotterdammerung, it is merely glib. "There is too much emphasis on heaviness in the Ring," says the diminutive Rosenthal, who conducted the Seattle Symphony from 1949 to 1951. "I discovered the French side of this music, the fantastic orchestration that I never suspected...
Boston is an old town, its narrow streets not neat grids like Kansas City's. The streets wind, end in cul-de-sacs, curve back on themselves, disappear, intersect by the sixes and sevens at rotaries. Their direction is fluid and changing. An outsider, carefully learning that Charles Street is one way this way, returns a year later to find it that way. Overhead traffic signs are terse, grudging and lacking in true meaning. Street signs are usually placed only on cross streets, leaving unnamed the street upon which one is driving...
...Products: "We have no intention at this point in time of discontinuing our over-the-counter capsule business." At another time, he implies, things could change. Echoed a spokesman for Sterling Drug, maker of Panadol and Midol pain relievers: "We are still marketing the capsules. But it's a fluid situation. Any instance, such as the recent tampering cases, causes us to review our products." A prudent middle course would be for all manufacturers to adopt one of the new technologies for safer capsules as quickly as possible. If that does not stop the poisonings, the companies may have...
...forge majorities, Rehnquist will have to reach into the court's shifting, fluid middle. Although she has grown more independent of late, Justice O'Connor usually votes with her old Stanford Law School classmate. Justice Byron White, a Kennedy appointee, can often be counted on as a conservative vote, especially on criminal-rights cases. A careful balancer, Justice Lewis Powell is a pragmatic statesman who tries to find a middle way for the court on controversial cases. It was Powell, for instance, whose opinion striking down explicit quotas but permitting race to be a "factor" in university admissions achieved...