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...Houston was a report by scientists from the California Institute of Technology that a rock collected by the Apollo 17 astronauts during the final moon voyage apparently traces back to that awesome event. It first cooled off and solidified some 4.6 billion years ago, making it older than any specimen previously found on the moon or earth...
...which flourished more than 3,000 years ago, Kilmer deciphered the thin cuneiform script as the words and musical symbols of an ancient song. Older by 1,400 years than the 400 B.C. papyrus that contains music for Euripides' play Orestes, Kilmer's finding is the earliest specimen of notated music. Her discovery puts music's birthplace in the Middle East, debunking the prevailing theory that Western music originated in Greece. "These findings have absolutely revolutionized thinking about the age and history of Western music," she says...
...Dracaena massangeana (dracaena). As a result, plant doctors (many with degrees in horticulture or agriculture) are as much in demand as pet vets. Drs. Greenthumbs charge an average $15 a housecall, $10 or so a day for plant sitting and as much as $50 to potty train a specimen needing more root space. Boston's Plant Parenthood even offers a vegetative version of Blue Cross-Blue Shield for green pets...
...call to arms, and the defense of the river as a symbol of the entire country. Sophisticated Western listeners would have no trouble picking Yellow River apart, but for all its naivete, it is adroitly orchestrated and engagingly melodic. In addition, the concerto is genuinely historic-the first real specimen of China's current efforts to absorb Western music. "The fact is," says New York's Daniel Epstein, 27, the superb piano soloist on the LP, "that Yellow River is the favorite music of one-fifth of the world's population, and that alone merits its beingheard...
...purporting to show the I.Q. to be meaningless, immoral, culturally biased, capitalist, racist, etc. For many people, these episodes appear to generate no cumulative skepticism about the criticism. If you possess a thoughtful cast of mind, you should be piqued by this curious phenomenon, for it is a rare specimen of emotion submerging reason, of wish outweighing fact. Later, I will give some examples, drawn from last Tuesday's Crimson (November...