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...addition to suffering the taunts and accusative stares of parents, I find myself and my instrument lost and foundering in a vast ocean of ridicule and misunderstanding promulgated by your misinformed captionist...
...recent public statements, experts both inside and outside Brazil remain less than convinced that the country is finally out of the Bomb business. The Collor government still refuses to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty -- "an unjust instrument" because it does not apply to acknowledged nuclear powers, the Foreign Ministry says. There are also doubts about whether the government controls the military...
...calls Marsalis "one of the greatest young trumpet players around. He's at the top level on his horn and improving every day." Bass player Milt Hinton, 80, says Marsalis "stacks up miles ahead of" such past greats as Armstrong and Henry ("Red") Allen in mastery of the instrument. "But he doesn't yet have as much creativity blues-wise and dirt- and funk-wise as they had because he hasn't had to live it." Marsalis' main limitation -- one he shares with the entire youth brigade -- is the lack so far of a truly original creative voice. Trumpeter Dizzy...
...first harsh light of revelation, news that the Hubble Space Telescope was flawed appeared to be an unmitigated disaster. Because the telescope's main light-focusing mirror had been precision ground to the wrong specifications, the U.S. had evidently spent $1.5 billion on an instrument that may never take the promised supersharp pictures of the heavens...
Scientists wanted a telescope in space so that the instrument would be free from temperature changes and the pull of gravity, both of which can subtly distort the shape of earthbound mirrors. They also wanted it to rise above earth's turbulent atmosphere, whose constant roiling makes the stars appear to flicker. But scientists have learned to make mirrors that can change their shapes, enabling ground-based telescopes to overcome the problems of gravity and temperature fluctuations. Soon it may be possible to compensate for the atmosphere's turbulence as well...