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Perhaps the single strongest element of the show, however, lies in the third important group of characters. These are the "mechanicals," the clowns of A Midsummer Night's Dream. A band of lower-class artisans, their only goal is to rehearse the play they hope to stage before Duke Theseus in honor of his wedding. The play's most richly, broadly comic scenes fall to these characters, and the actors in this production pull off them off with sheer genius. As individual comic actors, the players are consistently hilarious; as a group, they forge a bond of buffoonery that transcends...
John S. Langford, president of Aurora Flight Sciences of Manassis, Va., thinks he has the solution to this problem. "Atmospheric scientists have long had to settle for the hand-me-down platforms from the military," Langford says. "[Aurora is] developing the Perseus and Theseus aircraft, taking advantage of a convergence in technologies, to fly as high as 25 kilometers, or more...
Perseus and Theseus are both "flying robots," Anderson says, unmanned planes that are guided by remote control...
Langford hopes to keep the Perseus and Theseus aircraft inexpensive enough that researchers can afford to use it. "In numbers, the Perseus will cost about $500,000 and each flight will cost $10,000 to $20,000," Langford says...
...collective memory of the war against the predator beasts is preserved in myth and fairy tale. Typically, a mythical hero starts out by taking on the carnivorous monster that is ravaging the land: Perseus saves Andromeda from becoming a sea monster's snack. Theseus conquers the Minotaur who likes to munch on Athenian youth. Beowulf destroys the loathsome night-feeding Grendel. Heracles takes on a whole zoo of horrors: lions, hydras, boars. In European fairy tales it's the wolves you have to watch out for -- if the cannibal witches don't get you first...