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Ivar Tombach, an AeroVironment vice president, marvels at MacCready's "intense curiosity and incredible capacity to take little fragments of information and synthesize something totally unexpected out of them. A news clipping, a little thing on the evening news, something that he sees while going down the street." Often, while driving with Tombach, MacCready will suddenly look out the window and exclaim, "Look at the bird. See what he's doing...
...instrument offered more than aesthetic satisfaction. "My brother and I were overweight as kids," Fleck recalls. "So I didn't have a great self- image, but I found this thing I could do that made me feel good. I played banjo all the time and stopped eating for satisfaction. I almost feel that I have a deal with the banjo, that if I put the time in and take care of it, I'll be thin and have something. And if I don't, part of me is afraid it will all fall apart...
...Fleck moved to Lexington, Ky., to help start a group called Spectrum. Exposure to bluegrass -- the real thing -- was a "big culture shock," he admits. "I was a little cocky, but down South, they didn't think I sounded so great because I lacked tone and I didn't have a great sense of rhythm. They were right." In 1981 Fleck moved to Nashville and joined the group that would be his musical home for the next eight years: the New Grass Revival, which played what Bela calls "high-tech bluegrass with a lot of heart and intensity; the singing...
...German unification barrels down the express track, one thing might slow it: Moscow's ever louder refusal to countenance one Germany in NATO. Last week's summit underscored the Soviet Union's deep wariness of its former enemy and its difficulty digesting the fact that East Germans will wind up in the Western military alliance. At the same time, Washington and Bonn agree that the unified Germany must remain firmly entrenched in NATO...
...scientists assume that the uranium-thorium tests were right and the carbon 14 tests wrong? For one thing, the carbon datings pointed to the strange conclusion that ice ages, thought to be related to changes in the earth's orbit around the sun, have mysteriously lagged behind those changes by a few thousand years. But uranium-thorium dating shows no such lag. Moreover, carbon 14 levels in the air -- and thus the amount ingested by organisms -- are known to vary over time, and that can affect the results of carbon dating...