Word: planetarium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kids fortunate enough to grow up outside of the light-polluted and smog-ridden metropolis, I was fascinated by the starry night sky above me. Books about astronauts and rocket ships competed with Muppets and dinosaurs for space on my fledgling bookshelf. Back then a trip to the Hayden Planetarium in New York City was a special treat, and a morning of cartoons would not be complete without the extraterrestrial antics of the Jetsons. I knew the position of each planet relative to the sun in addition to the names of all the early astronauts. The capstone of my childhood...
...first display, an entire wall covered with tiny glass bubbles lit from behind, greets you before Jill Reynolds herself has a chance to. At first glance, the piece, Alphabet, reminds one vaguely of elementary school trips to the planetarium. But as one gets closer, what looks like a sea of stars metamorphosizes into a myriad of glass bubbles, stretching from the floor to the ceiling and spanning a length of about 20 feet. According to one of Reynolds' assistants, the approximately ten thousand inch-wide bubbles may look lethal to touch, but they break more like cellophane than like glass...
Museums: Name your favorite subject and the city's got a top-notch museum about it. The Boston Museum of Science has hands-on exhibits, a planetarium with laser light shows and an Imax theater. The Computer Museum showcases the latest in technology, also mostly hands-on. And for the kid in you, check out the Children's Museum, site of some amusing house formal dances...
...schools and construction of 17. When the school district failed to come up with its quarter of the cost--Clark had laid three-quarters of the bill on the state--the judge took the unusual step of doubling the local property tax. The money bought, among other things, a planetarium, radio and TV studios, and 1,000 computers for Central High School's 1,069 students. Central, which before Clark's order was awash in broken toilets and overrun by rodents, now occupies a $32 million building that resembles a small city's airline terminal and features an Olympic-size...
...Hubble's Fantastic Voyage" is an adaptation of The Franklin Institute Science Museum's Fels Planetarium production, and runs 35 minutes. It can be seen by the public starting October...