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...Open University's Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute in Milton Keynes, England, Pillinger and his colleague Geraint Morgan have built upon research they originally did for the Beagle project in order to create a diagnostic tool with the potential to save countless lives. Their device - about the size of a microwave oven - may not look like much, but it detects tuberculosis (TB), the highly infectious, hard-to-diagnose disease that often infects the lungs and kills more than 1.5 million people worldwide each year...
...Minor player 4. One of the "Two Virgins" 5. Suffix with dull or drunk 6. Winner of the Dominican presidential election 7. He established the organization that is taking over U.P.I. 8. Subsidiary of this company makes 5-Across 9. Buddy of the Clintons 10. Geraint's lady 11. Isthmus constructions 12. One of two kinds of U.S.N.A. grads 17. Again, in music 19. Like a noted Beethoven minuet 20. Baseball's Garciaparra 21. Wanderer 22. The FDA approved it in 1987 23. Gidget portrayer Sandra 24. La Cage __ Folles 26. Casablanca pianist 27. Suffix with press or moist...
Tarleton's daughter Hypatia (Deborah Kipp) is so restless under the inane constraints imposed on a gentlewoman that she has become engaged to a man who is a shrill teakettle of immaturity. When a handsome aviator (Geraint-Wyn Davies) and his Polish acrobat passenger (Carole Shelley) enter the Tarleton drawing room after their plane crashes into the greenhouse, verbal gunfire begins to crackle all along Shaw's battlefront...
...underline this conception, Ustinov allowed no cast bows after individual arias, no curtain calls at the end of Act I, and only one curtain call at the finale. Fine for the show, but a bit of a sacrifice for the exemplary cast (notably Roger Soyer as the don, Sir Geraint Evans as Leporello, and Heather Harper as Elvira) and Conductor Daniel Barenboim. Only seven years after rearranging a notable piano career to include the baton, Barenboim, 30, made an impressive operatic debut at Edinburgh, bringing forth from the English Chamber Orchestra a powerfully humane and often witty reading ideally geared...
...presented the first major U.S. stagings of such operatic landmarks as Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Berlioz's Les Troyens. He was the first to put such now celebrated Europeans as Birgit Nilsson, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Geraint Evans on the American stage. He has also led in giving major roles to relatively unknown U.S. singers, among them Leontyne Price. Says the grateful Price: "I sort of grew up in San Francisco, both vocally and professionally. It's definitely equal to the Metropolitan...