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...about the most beautiful place on the planet," says a new resident, Megatrends Author John Naisbitt. When Bicycle Fortune Heir Richard Schwinn moved in eight years ago, he recalls, "it was like paradise." But perhaps not for much longer. Laid-back little Telluride, Colo., remote hideout for a smattering of the trendy rich and uncrowded preserve of ski connoisseurs, seems about to be discovered. The hills are alive with the sound of condo construction; resort developers are poised on their bulldozers. And a big part of the reason is that the hippies who crash-landed there in the '70s have...
...punk band Talking Heads, Byrne comes across as both stage-frightened and spellbinding. The dramatic contours of his gaunt face seek the shadows, where his most pounding, powerful songs (Psycho Killer, Burning Down the House) take form. The other band members, who appear to have been born on this planet, are along to provide white noise for the Showman from Outer Space as he surfaces in a big white suit or leads his troupe in odd calisthenics that turn into a Walpurgisnacht boogie. This ain't no party; this ain't no disco; this ain't no foolin' around...
Physicist Norman Ness reported that Voyager's magnetometers had "detected firm evidence" of a Uranian magnetic field about a third the strength of earth's. The existence of the field suggests that the giant planet, which is 64 times as large as the earth in volume but has a mass only 14 1/2 times as great, has a liquid core. Some scientists speculate, however, that the magnetic field may be generated by an electrically charged ocean covering the planet. Some of the larger moons apparently have, or at one time had, crustal movements that created the fault zones and valleys...
...passed Uranus last week, Voyager looked back at the planet, now silhouetted against the distant sun, seeking to learn more about the rings by observing sunlight passing through them. One early finding: the rings contained far less dust than those circling Saturn. Then, its direction changed by the tug of Uranian gravity, the hardy little spacecraft began a 3 1/2-year trip to Neptune, which it is scheduled to encounter in August...
FOOTNOTE: *Uranus lies on its side, its axis of rotation more or less perpendicular to those of the other eight planets. Its north pole now points at the sun and thus receives more solar radiation than other regions of the planet...