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...Technology, working with the University of California, will build the world's biggest optical telescope on the volcano's crest; construction could begin as early as 1986. The mammoth instrument, made possible by a $70 million grant to Caltech by the W.M. Keck Foundation, will have an innovative mirror system nearly 400 in. in diameter, which is twice the width and has four times the light-gathering capacity of today's reigning optical telescope, the 200-in. Hale device at Mount Palomar, Calif. When astronomers begin using the new telescope in 1992, it will push back the visible limits...
MATCHED PAIRS. Torvill and Dean (Jayne and Christopher), the pluperfect English ice dancers, and the twin brothers Mahre (Phil and Steve), who won gold and silver in near mirror performances at the Winter Games...
...Virginia Woolf mused on Oct. 7, 1919. "Partly, I think, from my old sense of the race of time 'Time's winged chariot hurrying near'--Does it stay it?" "It" was diary writing, and the question was rhetorical. Of course the entries could stop time, by providing a mirror of the self and a method of recapturing the past. That is a truth every diarist apprehends, first instinctively and then with the evidence of the page. In this critical anthology, Thomas Mallon, a professor of English at Vassar, offers hundreds of such proofs, from diaries as old as Samuel Pepys...
...anatomical studies, a three-dimensional model of the heavens and a mural that actually fades before the eyes. From the base of these structures, the reader learns about the look and feel of the Renaissance and about the restless intelligence of an artist who even noted, in his famous mirror writing, the audacious discovery EVOM TON SEOD NUS EHT. A warning: pop-ups are for the very young. This year juvenile readers with a deeper interest in art should turn to a far more comprehensive volume...
...kind of cold-sweat compassion for its protagonist, a Viet Nam vet returning home. The lyrics are full of stabbing detail: this vet's wife "called up her mama to make sure the kids were out of the house/ She checked herself out in the dining room mirror/ And undid an extra button on her blouse." As in Ernest Hemingway's seminal short story Soldier's Home, the reunion is full of restless memories and long shadows. The vet lies in bed, next to his wife, staring at the ceiling, his hands paralyzed, terrified of the darkness...