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...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...
Tymoczko's answer, which led last summer to the first paper on music theory ever published in the journal Science, is that the cosmos of chords consists of weird, multidimensional spaces, known as orbifolds, that turn back on themselves with a twist, like the Möbius strips math teachers love to trot out to prove to students that a two-dimensional figure can have only one side. Indeed, the simplest 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...
Last week the answer came: an explosion that hurled Perot off the GM board of directors and into the headlines. At a session that Perot agreed to skip, the other members of the GM board voted unanimously to buy back his 11.3 million shares of company stock for $700 million. In effect, they told the brash Texan that he could take his money and his loud mouth and go away...
Does she or doesn't she? The fashionable answer nowadays is always a louder and louder yes. From Manhattan to Los Angeles, a sunburst of bold, exotic and decidedly unnatural colors is streaking, squiggling and dotting across the hairstyles of the nation's trendy younger set, and even making inroads among more mature professionals. The startling palette of reds and blues, golds and silvers, greens and purples comes from inexpensive temporary hair-coloring products that are easily applied at home and almost as easily showered away. Confrontational coloration, once a shocking British and American punk emblem, is now celebrated...
Bernard, a student from Trinidad who recently married an American named Joannie, hoped to become a permanent U.S. resident. But first the Immigration and Naturalization Service in New York City wanted him and his new wife to answer a few questions?questions carefully designed to catch foreigners who enter into sham marriages with Americans simply to gain citizenship. INS officials have been known to ask applicants about tattoos and which side of the bed someone sleeps on, then double-check the answers with their spouses. "We married for love," said Bernard. "But we had heard stories about the interview...