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...birth by staging four of his best-known works, including The Magic Flute, and a company was born. Fifty years later, they have repatriated one of their finest exports, director David Freeman, to launch a new version combining vocal firepower (Amelia Ferrugia, Jaewoo Kim, Emma Matthews) with the aerial acrobatics of Legs on the Wall. Did someone mention crossover appeal? "You can't stay 19th century," says the production's designer, Dan Potra, who shares with his director the belief that opera will "die a slow, agonizing death" unless new elements are brought...
...Torino, China had already secured six medals, including gold in women's short-track speedskating, and looks almost certain to surpass its 2002 record. This week's action includes several sports in which China has, in a decade, transformed itself from newbie competitor to gold-medal contender, including freestyle aerial skiing, speedskating and other short-track skating events. Its success in the ice rink serves as a global warning that China has already emphatically arrived. "We have a national system, and the country has put a lot of effort into it," head skating coach Yao Bin told Time...
...basic Smithian economics: the market equilibrium price is far higher than other crops like coffee or soy. Washington’s “Apocalypse Now”-like burning of fields might work in areas with violent seditious guerrillas like Colombia’s FARC, but in Bolivia, aerial spraying destroys peoples’ opportunities to feed their families. Burning crops in distant Inca lands only prevents politicians from facing the real problem of demand, whether it is in Amsterdam’s dark alleys or Los Angeles’ celebrity pubs...
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass.—Boston College put on a spectacular aerial show on Thursday night for 7,149 fans at Conte Forum, while the Harvard men's basketball team was unable to even attain liftoff.In a display of superior athleticism that included alley-oops, breakaway dunks and a bevy of baskets from long range, the Eagles (8-2) ran away from an overmatched Harvard squad by a score of 89-55."It's probably the best forty minutes we've had all season," BC coach Al Skinner said. "We've won some ballgames, but we haven't played...
...Baby, and a $10 million budget, Chan assembled a starry cast: Taiwanese-Japanese icon Takeshi Kaneshiro, rising mainland actress Zhou Xun and Jacky Cheung, the one Heavenly King of Canto-pop who can really sing. But would audiences accept a big-budget Asian film without a flying kick or aerial swordfight? And was Chan?a Hong Konger best known for delicate, tightly-observed dramas such as Comrades, Almost a Love Story?the man to bring this improbable project...