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...aspects of the revamped theater. "There is a tendency to think of the Bolshoi as a building - to think of it as a brand," says Raymond Stults, a critic who has written about the Moscow opera scene for 15 years. "After a successful tour in Paris a few years ago, one of their ballerinas said to me, 'Finally the management realizes that it's not about them and it's not about the building - it's about us.' But I don't know how long that feeling was maintained...
...McGraw-Hill has confirmed that it is "exploring strategic options" for the magazine, which is another way of saying the company does not think it can make money off the magazine - ever. It may not be wrong. Less than a decade ago, Business Week ran nearly 6,000 ad pages in a year. This week, a banker valued the magazine at a dollar. "The rapid speed of the switch from print to digital, combined with the extreme severity of the economic downturn, has made it very tough for all weekly magazines," says Stephen Shepard, former editor in chief of Business...
...investors on a buying spree, didn't come because consumers are suddenly spending more or because housing is bouncing back - neither of which Goldman asserts. The lion's share of Goldman's new optimism derives from the fact that banks look more profitable now than they did several months ago. (Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...
...original Apollo flights have been improved, altered or completely discarded in favor of new items. The famous freeze-dried ice cream was created on request for an Apollo 7 crew member, but the astronauts disliked it so much that it has never been used again. A few years ago, NASA tried to resolve complaints about fish-based dishes smelling "too fishy," but their solution, thermo-stabilized swordfish in tomato sauce, tasted so bad that some astronauts refused to eat it. But despite all the setbacks and unappealing concoctions, there is still one food item that has made it onto every...
More than two decades ago, Fujifilm was one of the first camera manufacturers to see the future of photography was digital. In 1988, the Japanese imaging giant developed the world's first fully digital still camera; 10 years ago Fujifilm held 30% of the digicam market. But that dominant position proved difficult to defend against competitors such as Nikon, Olympus and Canon. Today, Fujifilm is one of the industry's also-rans, with just a 6.7% market share...