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...looks as if it's going to be important to understand the culture of Southern California. After all, it has formed two Presidents and provided a congenial atmosphere for the retirement of a third. James McMichael's Four Good Things, a new long poem about--of all things--Pasadena, makes such an effort. It is also about worry, death, sex manuals, taxes, domestic architecture, the Industrial Revolution, real estate, and the American soul...
...region famous for its devotion to the automobile, Pasadena residents have searched for traffic relief in their historic neighborhood for eight years. Residential traffic management will not work. Woonerf concept of channeling automobile movement is a positive and encouraging step...
...Pasadena, Calif...
Commercial labs, more than 50 so far, have sprung up across the country, creating a demand that allows top-flight researchers and agricultural scientists "to write their own ticket." In California venture capitalists have provided "seed" money for Calgene in Davis and Phytogene in Pasadena. In St. Louis Monsanto has just added a gleaming molecular biology center to its agricultural research facilities. Pioneer Hi-Bred International, the nation's top breeder of seed corn, has broken ground for its own high-tech molecular biology lab in Des Moines...
...earthbound viewers, and even for scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory outside Pasadena, which masterminds Voyager's progress, the show-stopper was, once again, Saturn's rings. Better illuminated than they were during Voyager 1's flyby, they showed up in greater detail and in far greater number: literally by the thousands. Before Voyager 2's visit, scientists had a ready hypothesis to explain why the icy materials of the rings-fragments ranging in size from dust specks to boulders-follow only certain orbits and not others, leaving gaps of hundreds of miles. The gaps...