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...Saptaswara,” an understated and lovely blending of “Carnatic, Roma, Hindustani, Celtic and Western Classical” themes on guitar, mandolin, violin, tabla, and veena (an enormous stringed instrument), was also impressive...
...Caram was later spotted standing on a snowbank at the end of the parade route, holding his brass instrument at his side and shouting for Johansson’s attention among a cluster of excited spectators...
...doubts are likely to persist until the outer mural is temporarily removed and the wall behind it is finally opened--if it ever is. For now, Seracini is trying at least to show that Leonardo's mural is likely to be there. To accomplish that, he's using an instrument he developed in collaboration with the University of California at San Diego and Emory University to capture chemical clues of any paint colors that may be present behind the wall. There's a good chance that Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli will grant Seracini permission in the next year...
...Lawrence, the Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment at the Kennedy School of Government, said in an interview that Summers and Rubin were “not denying that there are serious issues in the U.S. labor market with respect to inequality but that trade is the wrong instrument to deal with it.” “We need other measures, we need other policies, but [curbing free trade] is not the right solution,” he said, characterizing the secretaries’ views. In Washington, Rubin shot back at critics of free trade...
...since being completed in 1974. One solution to the size problem is to make several smaller mirrors work together, simulating a single large one. The computer-synchronized Multiple-Mirror Telescope atop Mount Hopkins in Arizona, for example, has six mirrors and the light-gathering power of a 176-in. instrument. But Borra claims that his mercurial approach will make possible virtually flawless single mirrors at least five times as big as the one at Palomar and can do it simply and inexpensively...