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...piano playing days then almost came to a halt, but an inspirational experience pushed Mia back to tinkling the ivories, this time for good. "One night I saw this 10-year-old performing a concerto with the Boston Pops: She was my age. That really struck home, and I was thinking, 'Boy, she is incredible.' She played a Haydn concerto, I remember distinctly. I was so impressed that right after that concert I started to practice and I said if someone at that age can be that good I really want to know how far I can push myself...
...Geneva, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency yesterdays said the Chernobyl disaster set back the industry, but will not halt expansion of nuclear power...
...Japan may prove more promising. Known as "inherent safety" devices, all are designed to eliminate vulnerable cooling systems and human errors and shut down immediately in case of malfunction. One such machine is being developed at the Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago. Any sudden rise in temperature will halt the experimental reactor within minutes. The system performed flawlessly in its initial test last April. A similar Swedish unit called PIUS (Process Inherent Ultimate Safety) floods with water in the event of a mishap; the boron-treated liquid instantly stops the reactor. West Germany is experimenting with small modular units that...
...snowstorms that have helped claim the lives of at least 50 climbers on Mount Hood since the turn of the century. Overwhelmed suddenly by the fury of snow, the bitterness of the wind and the blindness of a near zero-visibility whiteout, the climbers came to a desperate, shivering halt. In a frantic effort to save themselves, they crammed their bodies, sardine close, into a small snow cave...
...Dictator Luis Garcia Meza, citing acts of sedition, armed revolt and assassination, many hoped that the anticipated supreme court trial would clean up the image of a nation tarnished by a flagrant cocaine trade, official corruption and worse. Last week, after three brief sessions, the trial ground to a halt. As the civilian government of President Victor Paz Estenssoro stood by, the twelve-member supreme court proved unable to come up with a quorum of judges to reconvene the case. Said a well-placed diplomatic observer: "People are afraid. There's no question about that...