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...Tchaikovsky’s “Serenade for Strings.” Paine Hall. 8 p.m. Free. (MFK)Ad Frank & the Fast Easy Women. Local indie pop group Ad Frank & The Fast Easy Women perform at 12:15am with Jupiter One (9:15), Westward Trail (10:15), and The Everyday Visuals (11:15) opening. T.T. The Bear’s Place. 12:15 a.m. Tickets available cash-only at the door or by phone, (617) 492-BEAR, $9. (DFH)Constantines, The Hold Steady, and Thunderbirds Are Now. This trio of bands hits Cambridge with a mix of subpop...
Just where J.P.L.'s westward-ho push will take it next is not yet set. More missions to Mars are certain. Others to Pluto and Jupiter's moon Europa are possible. The still vague nature of these plans does not bother the veterans who know the lab best. "What we do here is try to figure out how impossible a task is and then we take it on," says Lee, a 30-year J.P.L. veteran. "The result is that we add to human knowledge. Now, can you have a better life...
...entire Gulf region, fresh from the devastation of Katrina, is concerned about Rita, which became a Category 1 hurricane Tuesday morning, with winds up to 95 mph, and could intensify into a Category 3 as it moves across the Gulf. The storm is expected to travel westward toward Texas, and authorities in Galveston have already called for a voluntary evacuation of the city beginning Tuesday, several days before Rita is expected...
...Putin, whom Bush visited on Sunday as part of his European trip, the president called for free elections in Belarus, whose president, Aleksandr Lukashenko, is among Putin’s remaining friends in Eastern Europe, where former Soviet republics, such as Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia, are turning westward in increasing numbers...
...Last week's burst involved a similar movement of plates, but the result was entirely different. Extending along most of the coast of South America, the dense Nazca plate of the Pacific, moving eastward, subducts, or descends beneath, the lighter mass of the South American plate, which is moving westward. As the oceanic plate dives deeper into a region of high temperature and pressure some 60 miles to 125 miles below the earth's surface, rock in the area begins to soften and form magma, molten rock. Says Robert Christiansen, a volcano specialist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS...