Word: hydrogen
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Frequently digressing, he tells you the story of his own rise through the established ranks of trusted scientists, and how he eventually came to be called the "father of the hydrogen bomb." Then, following the dictates of his conscience, how he began to speak out against the Soviet regime until he was a world-renowned champion of human rights and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. At the urging of Sakharov's wife, the two of you move inside to escape the cold Russian night air and, to the accompaniment of more pots of tea, he continues the story...
...tragedy. Now the quality of that vaunted technology has become a serious question. Last week, in a period of just a few days, NASA discovered that its $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope had been fitted with a faulty mirror and that a second of its three shuttles had sprung hydrogen leaks...
Costly and frustrating as the shuttle problem is, NASA will be able to correct it with relative ease. The agency prudently grounded not only the two faulty spaceships but the third shuttle as well, until engineers are satisfied that the hydrogen fuel system is safe. This means a wholesale rescheduling of NASA's launch program and corresponding delays in realizing all of NASA's scientific and military objectives...
...serious flaw in one of its mirrors hobbles the orbiting Hubble telescope until 1993, at least, while the shuttle fleet is grounded by the second hydrogen leak in a month...
...seem premature to write minimalism's obituary. After all, the prolific Glass has created several more music-theater pieces since Akhnaten, most recently The Hydrogen Jukebox, a collaboration with poet Allen Ginsburg. Among other exponents of minimalism, composer John Adams (Nixon in China) is busily at work on his second opera, The Death of Klinghoffer, which is scheduled for a Brussels premiere next year. Yet neither composer is still writing in the rigorously theoretical, disdainfully austere style of his early years...