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...year-old McPherson has often been facetious about considering himself a playwright. Whatever he names himself, there are not many writing on this scale: Marvin's Room received the 1992 Drama Desk Award for Best Play, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, the John Gassner Playwrighting award, the Whiting Writer's Award, and the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award...
...director David Pountney are also aboard -- manages to embrace not only the explorer's first trip to the New World but also the electric dreams of Stephen Hawking, the arrival of aliens on Earth during the Ice Age, and humanity's conquest of space. Characters sing suspended in outer space, sets soar through the air like rocket ships, and the hydraulic stage heaves like waves in a storm, propelling the extraterrestrials and Columbus' crew alike toward their unknown destinations. With a commissioning fee to Glass of $325,000 (about half of which went for expenses), The Voyage already ranks...
...world no longer has the leisure of the two centuries Mauritius took to develop a conservation ethic. In the past, natural forces shaped the environment. Now, unless a new round of volcanism erupts worldwide or a comet courses in from outer space, human activities will govern the destiny of earth's ecosystems. It may soon be within human power to produce the republics of grass and insects that writer Jonathan Schell believed would be the barren legacy of nuclear war. If humanity fails to seek an accord with nature, population control may be imposed involuntarily by the environment itself...
...discovery was no accident. David Jewitt, a University of Hawaii astronomer, and Harvard's Jane Luu, now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, had been searching for just such an object for five years. Says Jewitt: "We were trying to understand why the outer solar system is so empty." Is it because there is really nothing out there or because things are just hard...
...outskirts, where it presumably congealed into chunks of ice and dust. (Rocky Pluto is an anomaly, and many astronomers believe it isn't a planet at all but a giant comet or asteroid flung into its present position when it had a close gravitational encounter with one of the outer planets...