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...meet Charlie, the eight year-old newt expert who, with his best friend Servin, hopes to capture a giant turtle in the marshes near his house. We meet his father Ivan, an astronomer whose obsession is to study the supernova in Chile, and his mother Polly, a professional photographer who feels as though she does not spend enough time with her children. And Hoffman also introduces us to the 11 year-old Amanda, whose goals are simple--to study gymnastics with Bela Karyouli and to have her braces...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Letting the Truth Ring Out | 7/22/1988 | See Source »

...balloon will be one of six such vehicles observing the supernova, Grindlay says, adding that each balloon flight takes between one and two days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Up, Up and Away | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...Supernova 1987A produced high amounts of radioactive nickel which decayed into radioactive cobalt in a week. This cobalt is still decaying, producing a prodigious quantity of gamma rays and x-rays. The experiment will measure the x-rays emitted by the supernova...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Up, Up and Away | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

EXITE, part of a NASA Balloon and Rocket Campaign to observe a supernova, number 1987A, launched a balloon carrying a telescope into the atmosphere to detect high energy x-rays emitted from the exploded star. The launching was scheduled to take place at the end of April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Up, Up and Away | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...Soprano Julia Varady brought a sweet pathos to the obsessive Donna Elvira. Director Michael Hampe's staging was conventional until the climax. When the Commendatore dragged the unrepentant Don to perdition, the Iberian setting vanished to reveal a cosmic firmament, quenching the earthly fires of lust in a metaphysical supernova of destruction. The normally bubbly postlude took place on a desolate, Pirandellian stage, on which six characters wandered in search of a composer. That composer, of course, was Mozart, and in Salzburg he is never very far away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mozart, Moses and Money | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

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