Early research involved a colleague lying in a deckchair in the night-time open air with a piece of string to measure the meteors, while he observed electromagnetic signals on a cathode-ray tube in a nearby hut.
Each of the five works in repertory is accompanied, in some measure, by the Orion String Quartet, which performs Mozart, Mendelessohn, Ravel and Schubert with winning expertise, despite being intruded on, at random moments, by the kinds of shtick Mr. Jones favors.
To block such a measure, Daschle and the Democrats are sharpening their partisan shivs, threatening a string of amendments that would tie up the Senate chamber indefinitely.