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...amount of fertilizer in the sea, and another alien jellyfish, the Beroe ovata, which preys on the Mnemiopsis, not fish, was accidentally introduced to the water. "It's taken three separate events," Richardson says. "The point is you can't just stop overfishing and expect the fish to come back...
Like a holiday gift from an outlaw uncle or a grenade dropped into a mantelpiece stocking, Bob Dylan's Christmas in the Heart arrives to challenge pop-music purists and Dylan's rep as a perennial pioneer. Some listeners will want to pat the singer on the back--hard, so he can cough up whatever it is that makes him sound like a tubercular hobo who's wandered into a karaoke bar at Yuletide. Others will wonder what statement Dylan, a Jew who for a while declared himself a born-again Christian, is making with a 15-song...
This is the perfect time to go back and get retrained--but get retrained in an emerging sector. We won't pay for you to get a degree in French or political science--those are my degrees so I can say that safely--but we will pay for you to get a degree in something that is of need, like nursing. We have 80,000 vacancies even though we have high unemployment. There is a skills...
...Calling 'Em Out" [Oct. 19]: Without enough real news to fill the 24/7 format, the media have to resort to half-truths and sensationalism to maintain an audience. Here's to the White House for fighting back. I hope press secretary Robert Gibbs keeps throwing fastballs high and tight...
...have opened so far this fall: Letts' Superior Donuts, a relatively formulaic comedy-drama about a crusty inner-city doughnut-shop owner and the black kid who comes to work for him, and Oleanna, Mamet's scathing account of a bogus sexual-harassment charge that was too polemically freighted back in 1992 and has the added disadvantage of seeming dated today. But collectively, they showcase much of what makes Chicago theater so distinct and vital. The City of Big Shoulders produces big-shouldered theater as well--thematically ambitious, emotionally juiced, socially impassioned. It's a contrast to the hothouse quality...