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...Bach with the Boston premiere of composer-conductor Andre Previn's Sonata Vineyard, named so because it was composed just after Previn and his wife bought a home on Martha's Vineyard in 1994. The sonata is a turbulent, impassioned work that seems almost schizophrenic in its frenetic metric upheaval, alternation of fast and slow and its jagged leaping between notes, and thus the overly-vigorous attacks that seemed so out of place in Bach seem most appropriate here. The piece obviously requires the attentions of a virtuoso, and Shaham was up to the task, flawlessly tossing off harmonics, contorted...
...slow it down further, NMFS announced last spring that it was cutting this year's quota for large coastal sharks by 50%, to 1,285 metric tons, as well as establishing the first quota ever for small coastal sharks and banning commercial harvests of five species considered especially prone to overfishing--whale, basking, white, sand tiger and bigeye sand tiger. Outraged fishermen have responded by suing the Secretary of Commerce. Conservation is important, agrees Robert Spaeth, head of the Southern Offshore Fishing Association, but he argues that shark populations are difficult to count accurately--an assertion biologists agree with...
Though the University did not use the system of quotas under attack in Bakke, it submitted a friend-of-the-court brief defending institutions' right to use non-metric qualities including ethnicity and gender in selecting students...
...would say less than one percent of the population knows the metric changes are going to happen." Nigel Griffin, consumer affairs spokesperson for the United Kingdom's Labour Party, commenting on the nation's impending metrification. He was quoted in the Boston Globe on Sept...
...deck crewman could hook it to the catapult that would hurl the fighter skyward at 260 km/h. In the Tomcat's backseat, radar-intercept officer Lieut. (j.g.) Kristin ("Rosie") Dryfuse glanced out the cockpit to another deckhand holding a lighted box that flashed "66,000 lbs.," (30 metric tons) the plane's weight. Dryfuse circled her flashlight to signal that the weight was correct...