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...Bassoon Concerto was preceded by Wagner's Tannhauser overture, a taste of lush orchestral beauty about as far as you can get from Stravinsky's astringent, polyrhythmic ballet. This piece showed the archromantic composer in full bloom, retelling the legend of Venus and Tannhauser in a series of exquisite themes and shimmering orchestral textures. The string section shone in the controlled chaos of Wagner's glistening chromaticism. Student conductor Brian Koh matched the music's passion blow for blow, his emphatic gestures turning almost violent by the end of the overture...
...chilling effect this could have on Internet communications is widespread, and the focus on indecency affects more than just the Playboy Web site. Images of classical works of art like Michelangelo's "David" or Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" might no longer be available over the Internet, since the nudity displayed in the pieces would technically be indecent...
...SOLUTION WAS TO supplement the rocket's power with three "gravity assists," first from Venus, which Galileo skimmed around in a "crack-the-whip" maneuver that boosted its velocity and flung it back toward Earth, and then from Earth itself, which it swooped by twice, passing less than 200 miles from the ground before finally picking up sufficient speed to make it all the way to Jupiter...
Forced into a longer journey, the spacecraft made good use of its time. It shot pictures, calibrated its instruments, conducted scientific observations of Venus and Earth during its flybys and, among other achievements, confirmed the existence of a huge impact crater on the backside of the moon. Passing twice through the asteroid belt, it snapped the first closeup images of the asteroid Gaspra and discovered the first asteroidal moon, a tiny clump (later named Dactyl) orbiting the asteroid Ida. Then in July 1994 it shot pictures of the fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 plunging into Jupiter, capturing images...
Along the way, however, Galileo suffered a serious setback. In 1991, when J.P.L. controllers attempted to deploy the spacecraft's main, 16-ft.-wide, umbrella-like antenna--which had been tucked away during the Venus encounter to protect it from solar radiation--three of the antenna's 18 ribs got stuck. Despite more than 13 months of ingenious and increasingly desperate measures to shake these ribs loose, the antenna, which had been capable of transmitting 134,400 digital bits per second (or a complete image in about a minute), remains unusable...