Marcia Mitzman Gaven 1985. Gaven starred in the New York City Opera's Broadway revival of "Brigadoon", in which she played Meg Brockie, at New York State Theater in 1986. The story is about a mysterious Scottish village that appears for only one day every hundred years, and Meg is one of the villagers. According to Sy Syna of the magazine "The World & I", Gaven was "a huge crowd pleaser" in the role. She was also cast in the New York City Opera's spring 1987 revival of "South Pacific" as the female lead character Nellie Forbush, a U.S. Navy nurse who works on
Forbush decrease days, the galactic cosmic ray intensity returns to normal. Forbush decreases have also been observed by humans on "Mir" and the International Space Station (ISS), and by instruments onboard "Pioneer 10" and "11" and "Voyager 1" and "2", even past the orbit of Neptune. The magnitude of a Forbush decrease depends on three factors: A Forbush decrease is sometimes defined as being a decrease of at least 10% of galactic cosmic rays on Earth, but ranges from about 3% to 20%. Reductions of 30% or more have been recorded aboard the ISS. The overall rate of Forbush decreases tends to