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Still another experiment involves Voyager 2's photopolarimeter, a light-measuring device that failed on the first flight.. As the spacecraft approaches the planet, the instrument will be aimed through the rings at Delta Scorpii, a far-off star. By measuring disruptions (or blinking) of the starlight caused by the intervening ring material, the scientists should get the most precise data yet on the number of rings, their density and width and the size of the stuff they are made...
There are polite disagreements about technique. Some encourage improvisation. Some stick strictly to their text. Some argue that the first law of storytelling is to keep up a flow of words. O'Callahan, who believes that storytelling is a kind of music, with the storyteller as the instrument, has advised in print: "Be brave enough to use silence...
...full splendor, as tonally pure as ever, colored with a golden sheen but possessing that greater richness that comes with age to singers who have taken care of their voices. In a program of opera arias and art songs, this new texture enhanced what was already a remarkable instrument. Her impassioned performance of Tu che la vanità from Don Carlos showed that she can sing more demanding music with out forcing her tone or altering the quality of her voice...
...liveliest defense arguments rages around the Navy, which expectably has been assigned a high priority under Weinberger's concept of the "island nation." The Secretary calls the Navy "our primary instrument to project our military power to distant, but vital, regions." To project power, the Navy is wedded to battle groups centered on giant aircraft carriers, preferably nuclear propelled. The Administration wants to expand the number of major carriers from 13 now to 15 by 1992. Allowing for replacement of carriers scheduled to retire, that would require starting three new Nimitz-class (93,400 ton) carriers in the next three...
...crannies of the composer's output in search of further repertory-the oratorio La Betulia Liberata, for example, or the opera Mitridate, Re di Ponto, both written when Mozart was an adolescent. In addition, music of the classical period has become the frontier of performance scholarship; original-instrument versions of Mozart are now appearing, led by the Academy of Ancient Music's formidable project of recording all the Mozart symphonies in the way they might have been performed...