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Because politicians are always up for reelection and always beholden to campaign contributors, long-term political thinking has becomes a dead idea. But our concerns are long-term ones (Will there be an ozone layer in 2020?) and we have to use our political muscle to get them heard...
...band is an electronic spectacle of otherworldly sounds which are lucid one instant and garbled the next. The rhythms and tones layer and splay, reaching vertiginous crescendos then vanishing into something new, leaving a motif hanging in the air like the Cheshire cat's smile. But no sequencers or automatic drums are used--this is all done manually (albeit on mind-blowing pieces of musical technology). Think Tree plays these instruments, rather than simply programming them. The resulting combination of sophistication and sponteneity has earned Think Tree recognition on the local music scene and airplay on local radio, most notably...
Anderson began researching ozone in 1970, and he created his first instruments to measure chemicals in the ozone layer in 1974. When NASA needed a mission scientist, he was the logical person to call...
There Anderson is mission scientist at the Arctic Airborne Stratosphere Experiment, which is collecting data on the chemical composition of the ozone layer...
...ozone hole is caused by a high concentration of chlorine radicals eating away at the atmosphere. Anderson's group is studying the weakening of the ozone layer in the low to middle latitudes, where, he says, there has been "a general sagging" of the atmosphere...