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This month he extends that record with the publication of his 200th book. Leave it to Asimov to complicate things by passing the milestone twice. With rival publishers equally eager to bring out the landmark work, the author has satisfied both by assigning the same number to two offerings...
This weekend, in the final half of New Personal Animation, Kathy Rose and Frank Mouris with his wife Caroline reinforce Carpenter Center's reputation. Frank Mouris' latest work is reminiscent of his landmark Frank Film, which which won the 1973 Academy Award for indpendent animation. Frank Film was an autobiography in cut-outs and double soundtrack, one of Frank's voices telling his story and the other counting as the years roll by. The cut-outs came from years of scavenging fellow animators' magazines looking for the same orange slices and TV's in the same advertisements, which he made...
Einstein published two other landmark reports in Annalen der Physik during 1905. One paper explained a laboratory curiosity called the photoelectric effect, which occurs when a light beam hits a metallic target and causes it to give off electrons. (This phenomenon makes possible a host of today's electronic gadgetry, ranging from electric-eye devices to TV picture tubes and solar panels for spacecraft.) In this paper Einstein borrowed from a theory by German Physicist Max Planck, who had solved a vexing problem about the radiation of heat and light from hot objects by proposing that this radiant energy...
...started Roots courses; the National Archives in Washington found itself flooded by citizens' requests for information about their ancestors. Writer Alex Haley, whose search for his African heritage had led to the book that led to Roots, became a folk hero. A TV smash hit became a cultural landmark...
...coming of the Warren Court, the roles were reversed. It was legislatures that were resisting reform, and the court that was pushing social change. The landmark of that era was Brown vs. Board of Education (1954), which established that separate was not equal in public schools. The 14th acquired new meaning; judges became guardians of the poor and forgotten. The criminally accused were guaranteed the right to free counsel when indigent, the right to a jury in a felony case, and, with Miranda (1966), the right to be told of their rights before confessing. Free-speech guarantees were widely extended...