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Adaptive-optics systems may sound complicated, but they pale beside another technological trick that will ultimately boost telescopes' power even more. Called interferometry, it achieves the precise focus of a truly huge telescope without actually having the thing built. Instead, light is combined from widely separated telescopes--the two Kecks, say, whose observatory building was designed with a basement-level chamber for that purpose, or two or more of the four VLT telescopes in Chile. The system is dauntingly tricky and complex, but its astonishing precision will let astronomers tease out the details of galactic structures and distant solar systems...
...After the first flush of Rush, when he quickly built an audience of 15 million and earned bundles for himself and his stations, radio execs scrambled to put ditto-mouths on the air. Then, like most pop-cultural fashions, this one started to pale. Maybe the talk was too hot (listeners can't stay angry forever). Or political issues lost some urgency in a time when the economy was robust and, for most Americans, the rest of the globe ceased to exist (Bosnia, Belfast, world hunger... yawn). On radio, the sports-talk format took hold; so, late at night...
...minutely skewing some of the resulting lines. Then she combines eight of these patterns and transfers them onto a larger piece of paper using wintergreen oil as a solvent. The effect is unique, and the subtlety she gets out of a single letter is initially surprising, but these pieces pale in comparison to her paintings. Crosstown Arts, which opened only a few months ago, attempts to highlight emerging contemporary artists, and McNaught, who has only shown in Massachusetts thus far, is exactly the sort of artist such a gallery should focus on. McNaught, with her intriguing schema of game-playing...
...technology sector as a whole, like the rest of the economy, remains financially vibrant. Sinai estimates that earnings for U.S. tech companies will grow a healthy 18% a year for the next three to five years. While that would pale in comparison with the phenomenal 25%-to-30% annual increases the companies have chalked up since 1995, it would be more than enough to lead the economy...
...weighty content. Guest producers such as Erick Sermon and Joe N.O. inject vitality into the increasingly formulaic sound of Southern rap, particularly with the unsettling keyboard whistle of the title track. Guest rappers such as Jay-Z and Too $hort deliver solid turns on the mic, though their verses pale in comparison to the urgent booming of Scarface himself...