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...path to get there was bumpy. Hartford Stage mounted a different-looking version last fall that Lincoln Center pledged to bring to Broadway but then reneged on. With less than three months left in the season, Fran and Barry Weissler, who have won three Tony Awards by mounting star-package revivals like 1990's Fiddler on the Roof with Topol, decided to make this no-stars gay story their first new musical. Says Fran, a grandmother: "This was a big departure for us, our usual investors and our usual audiences. Half of the money in the show ((it cost...
Harvard's confidence continues to mount as the squad holds tight to it's first place ranking in the Brine Coaches Poll. With convincing victories over Cornell and Old Dominion last weekend, it's certainly safe to say that the team's mid-season slump is over...
Forced out by a river of fire, a homeowner left behind wine and glasses as an offering to Mount Etna. And the lava flow, which since December had rolled over earthen barriers and destroyed two farmhouses, came to a near halt last week just short of Zafferana Etnea (pop. 7,000). Was it natural processes -- or were the volcano gods pleased by the wine...
...years and millions of dollars later, that effort culminated in a spectacular success: the casting of one of the world's largest telescope mirrors, a single 6.5-m (21-ft.) circle of glass that sometime in 1994 will be hauled by flatbed truck to the top of Arizona's Mount Hopkins, where it will tilt skyward like a giant Cyclopean...
These are heady days in the rarefied world of telescope making. Not since the 1934 casting of Mount Palomar's 5-m mirror -- a record size at the time -- has there been more innovation or competition to push the edge of possibility. In the clear air above Hawaii's Mauna Kea, the Keck I Telescope's mammoth 10-m mirror, built of 36 separate segments, is nearing final assembly -- a 10-month process was completed last week. Four years from now it will be joined by the Keck II, an equally monstrous twin. By then, the European Southern Observatory hopes...