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...others. The instruments are mainly plucked, though they were also hit with drumsticks and scraped to create a swishing sound.After the show, audience members were invited down to the stage to try their hand at playing a zither.The newest members of the ensemble, Yi-Chieh Lai and Ryuko Mizutani, explained the logistical differences of their instruments. For instance, Lai’s Chinese zheng has 21 steel strings; Mizutani’s Japanese koto has 13 silk strings.THREE ZEE PLUSIIIZ+ faces substantial challenges, not the least of which is their unique long-distance arrangement.The four members currently live separately...

Author: By Jessica R. Henderson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Zither Players Cross Cultural Boundaries in Performance | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

Construction magnate Daisuke Mizutani in 1989 bought half the Bordelon Breeders farm in Texas, one of the largest in the U.S., and Louisiana's Pacesetter Ostrich Farm will be the first to go public this month. Even cautious bureaucrats are falling in love with this ungainly bird. The Texas department of agriculture, which recently hired a full-time ostrich expert, has already made more than $1.2 million in low-interest loans to farmers in the booming industry, and projects that ostrich farming will pump nearly 5,000 jobs and $170 million into the state's economy by the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Bird a TURKEY? | 7/13/1992 | See Source »

DIED. Yaeko Mizutani, 74, grande dame of the Japanese stage for a quarter of a century; of cancer; in Tokyo. A breathtaking beauty, Mizutani made her stage debut at eight and became the national sweetheart, playing romantic roles in plays by Tolstoy, Shakespeare and Ibsen. In 1928 she joined Japan's renowned Shimpa theater company, and later proved her acting talents in films and on television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 15, 1979 | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Last month, Temin with his colleague, Satoshi Mizutani. and David Baltimore of M.I.T. published back-to-back papers in the journal Nature offering experimental evidence that RNA viruses causing cancer in animals are capable of assembling their own DNA. Their work was quickly confirmed by Sol Spiegelman, head of Columbia University's Institute for Cancer Research and one of molecular biology's most brilliant experimenters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Upsetting Dogma | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

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