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Medical applications are also being rapidly developed. Researchers at Maryland's Johns Hopkins have made a pill slightly larger than a daily vitamin supplement that has a silicon thermometer and the electronics necessary to broadcast instant temperature readings to a recording device. By having a patient swallow the pill, doctors...
The time is the late 1940s, the place Montgomery. James Earl Jones, portraying civil rights pioneer Vernon Johns, walks into an all-white diner, plops himself onto a stool and orders lunch. When the proprietor scornfully pours a Coke all over the counter, Jones erupts. "There's something inside of...
Saturday Night with Connie Chung is at least less tacky. Its story on civil rights leader Johns glided smoothly between interviews with real-life colleagues and re-enacted scenes from his life. Forthcoming episodes will use re-creations to focus on such issues as AIDS, abortion and capital punishment. Chung...
EVAN JOHNS & HIS H-BOMBS: BOMBS AWAY (Rykodisc). Stand back and let these boys explode: twelve scruffy juke-joint rock tunes as hot as the peppers at the far end of the bar.
The problem is compounded by the fact that the NEA is not a ministry of culture. It does not commission large works to reflect glory on the state, or set firm policy for other institutions. Its $169 million budget is tiny -- less than one-third the projected price of one...