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...theory, no single energy source has seemed more promising than fusion, the process by which science seeks to kindle the same nuclear fires as those in the sun. But until recently, progress has been painfully slow; fusion is not expected to produce power before well into the 21st century. Now an experiment at Princeton University has ignited new optimism about the future of fusion...
...times higher than the sun's own internal heat and better than twice the mark set at Princeton last December. Equally important, feared instabilities at that temperature did not occur, making the physicists more confident than ever that they will be able to demonstrate the scientific feasibility of fusion by reaching the magical break-even point: when as much energy comes out of a reaction as goes into...
Such cases suggest that a name is not a passive label. Some names, weirdly enough, manage to penetrate to the core of the named, achieving a profound fusion, becoming inextricable. Certain names become so incorporated with the acts or traits or destinies of their owners that they pop into the popular vocabulary as common nouns and adjectives: Cain, Jeremiah, Job (the Bible is a storehouse of such), Machiavelli, De Sade, McCarthy. The same peculiar joining of character and name occurs all the time, even in the fictive world. Romeo is as inseparable from the youth so named...
Pianists Hancock and Corea defend their fusion music as a logical extension of the jazz musician's fascination with sound. In 1973, when jazz was suffering the financial blues, Hancock had the idea of using the synthesizer's weird, spacey sound not with the complex experimental music that he was then making but with funk and rhythm-and-blues. It turned into Head Hunters, made up of more conventional music that "a lot of people liked." Corea went roughly the same route. His recent Mad Hatter album, a lush blend of strings that borders on background music...
Most Americans have never heard the free sounds of progressive jazz. The reason is simple: major record companies tend to produce old reliables and lucrative fusion music; they are unwilling to promote the experimental edge. A few of the best progressive practitioners, among them Jarrett and Trumpeter Don Cherry, 41, record in Europe. One of the few outfits supporting this hard-to-absorb music is New York's nonprofit New Music Distribution Service. Says Drummer Beaver Harris, one of the artists who uses the service: "What the major record companies produce isn't always what's happening...