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...Wolfe wrote the definitive record of those first high-flying days, and three hours gets you his tome in pictures, courtesy of Philip Kaufman: The Right Stuff. It's played in this space before, and it sure enough will again -- but at 193 minutes and an all-star cast, there's more than enough movie to go around...
...Marine Band's 17th director, John Philip Sousa, whose talent and flair put the band on the American map beginning in 1880 and also planted a band culture all across the country. Every town of any significance had to have a band with a bandstand in the park. The first order was patriotism. Sousa's march Stars and Stripes Forever became (and remains) the most recorded piece of music in history. But the bearded Sousa also infused the classics into every River City he hit in his wide tours with the Marines and later with his own band. Music from...
...sounds a bit apocalyptic to critics. "A heavily armed public," says Duke University public-policy professor Philip Cook, "could easily lead to a more heavily armed army of robbers and assaulters who will fire first and ask questions later." Jens Ludwig, a professor of pubic policy at Georgetown University, contends that the book does not account for fluctuating factors like poverty levels and policing techniques, which might affect crime rates even more than gun laws...
...scientists can say for sure is that these are definitely dinosaurs and that they definitely have feathers. And that alone is a big deal, as the paleontologists involved in the discovery are swift to point out. "It is," says Philip Currie, of Canada's Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology and a co-author of the Nature report, "one of the most exciting discoveries of the century, if not the discovery of the century...
Composer-performer Philip Glass has written many works of opera and musical theater