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Birgit Nilsson knew at 63 that her time had come; in 1982 the noblest of modern Brunnhildes put away her breastplate and shield, assured of a permanent place in every Wagnerian's vocal Valhalla. Beverly Sills, the ebullient American queen of bel canto, tossed off her last Donizettian roulade in 1980. Last week another of that generation's dominant divas appeared on an opera stage for the last time: Leontyne Price ended a glittering 32-year career with a vocally stunning performance of Verdi's Aida at New York City's Metropolitan Opera that proved she can still capture...
...themselves on what to offer the Soviets, much less on what to accept in return. The principal source of contention is a weapon that is still only a concept: the Strategic Defense Initiative, better known as Star Wars. Proposed by Ronald Reagan ! almost two years ago as an impenetrable shield against incoming missiles, the SDI is at least a decade and untold billions of dollars away from deployment. Many experts doubt that it can ever be made to work, at least as well as it is supposed to--and would have...
...used by Union Carbide as an ingredient in producing relatively toxic pesticides known as Sevin and Temik. At the Bhopal facility it was stored in three double-walled, stainless steel tanks, buried mostly underground to limit leakage in the event of an accident and to help shield them from air temperatures that could soar to 120° F in summer. Refrigerated to keep the highly volatile gas in its liquid form, the tanks were also equipped with thermostats, valves and other devices to warn when the temperature of the chemical exceeded 100° F, the point at which the liquid turns into...
...small nation. But for our entire history Prague has been the shield and symbol of Czechoslovakia. Outsiders have always tried to bring Prague down with military force. We have always resisted. That is why we love Prague, in addition to its beauty. Besides, it is prettier than New York...
...question of reimbursement of hospitals for costly procedures is dealt with differently in many states, and while there are some national guidelines for such underwriters as Blue Cross-Blue Shield, there remains a gray area between "established," or reimbursable procedures, and those which are still "experimental" and therefore not funded by insurance. Fineberg has proposed that procedures such as heart and liver transplants, which today fall somewhere between the two traditional categories, be given a label of their own--he calls it "investigational." Whether or not and to what degree these oprations would be underwritten, and how they would receive...