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When the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV decided to seek the pardon of Pope Gregory VII in 1077, he stood barefoot for three days in the snow outside the papal quarters in Canossa, Italy. Gorbachev's concordat with the church was no less significant in its way. But there was a crucial difference: as is so often the case with Gorbachev, he achieved his reconciliation without humiliation. As he had done before, the Soviet leader let the ongoing crisis of the Communist system serve as an opportunity to push his nation toward a broader vision of the future. "We need...
...better. Squinting his eyes, he manages to conjure up the prehistoric past, complete with saber- toothed tigers, early versions of horses, warthogs and, of course, the elephant's tusky ancestor. In Will's Mammoth (Putnam; $14.95), Stephen Gammell augments Rafe Martin's whimsical text with celebrations of early mammals, snow and that greatest of all time machines, a child's imagination...
...almost two hours, the performers read pieces ranging from humorous short poems by Ogden Nash to serious works like "The Buck in the Snow" by Edna St. Vincent Millay...
...technology is being used by Government agencies involved in surveillance and intelligence gathering to improve the performance of eavesdropping devices. Active Noise and Vibration Technologies of Phoenix makes antinoise speakers for the headrests of helicopters, trucks and airplanes to surround passengers with zones of silence. Soon, lawn mowers and snow-blowers may be electronically muzzled to reduce suburban din. And, thanks to antinoise systems, submarines carrying nuclear warheads now run silent as well as deep. "Everywhere you hear noise, there's a business opportunity," says Gene Frantz, applications manager for digital signal processing at Texas Instruments...
There are several works which make reference to Chinese literature. "On the Theme of Snow," by Muso Soseki, one of the most important figures in Japanese culture of the Kamakura period, is styled in semi-cursive, rhythmic Chinese script; this contrasts with the classical, fourth century style of Lan-chi Taolung's composition, which uses the elegant, slender stroked characters found in the work of the Chinese author Wang Hsi-chih...