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...Tymoczko may have changed all that. Borrowing some of the mathematics that string theorists invented to plumb the secrets of the physical universe, he has found a way to represent the universe of all possible musical chords in graphic form. "He's not the first to try," says Yale music theorist Richard Cohn. "But he's the first to come up with a compelling answer...
...chords, which consist of just two notes, live on an actual Möbius strip. Three-note chords reside in spaces that look like prisms--except that opposing faces connect to each other. And more complex chords inhabit spaces that are as hard to visualize as the multidimensional universes of string theory...
Despite North's efforts, contra leaders and others in Central America insist with good reason that nothing close to $30 million in Iranian arms profits was spent on military supplies or equipment. "The whole operation was held together with string," says William Wehrell, a pilot who flew supplies to the contras this year. "We couldn't even afford a proper navigational system to make sure that we dropped our loads to the right people...
...months, the Qixia men would call with an update, reminding me of some of the grim realities beyond China's caf?s and marble-lined lobbies. Two more village chiefs have been beaten up, they would tell me, one so badly that his arm dangles like a piece of string...
DIED. Lilly Rodriguez, 59, scrappy, pioneering athlete who in the 1970s helped popularize and legitimize boxing and kickboxing for women by winning a string of featherweight titles in both sports and defying skeptics who expected, in her words, "foxy boxing"; of complications from an infection; in Los Angeles...