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...order to support their mother. However, as money is, the proceeds are quickly spent by the children’s own families. Soon, the mother is passed around like a morbid game of hot potato from child’s house to child’s house, carrying her bird and plants and leaving behind her dignity like Hansel and Gretel’s crumbs. Shouldn’t it be enough that her kids chant forcefully of their dedication to filial responsibility? Not when it destroys their mother. Tickets $6. 9:15 p.m., also playing Tuesday, April...
...years ago in TIME With cable news, cell phones and the Web, we take instant global communications for granted. But in 1965, the launch of Early Bird, an 85-lb. satellite, was a seminal event for the world and for TIME...
...fast growing familiar with man's race beyond the confines of his own world, Early Bird reached back toward the earth and seemed to shrink it almost to room size. All by itself, the satellite blanketed more than one-third of the globe ... In Europe and the U.S., television's showmen labored to exploit Early Bird's versatility. At their best, the programs were as moving and immediate as Houston's great surgeon Michael DeBakey repairing a human heart while fascinated doctors in Geneva looked over his shoulder. Europe watched troop movements in Santo Domingo while bullets still ricocheted across...
...office, Thailand's Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, has helmed the best-performing economy in Southeast Asia and enjoyed stratospheric approval ratings. But a series of recent setbacks has many Thais wondering if he's losing his touch. Thaksin's woes began with his slow response to the recent bird-flu crisis, which has killed eight and devastated the country's chicken industry. Then, in quick succession, he was forced to back down from a controversial plan to close entertainment venues at midnight, respond to accusations that he was using his influence to muffle criticism in the local press, watch...
...recipient of the Roger Tory Peterson Medal, Sir David Attenborough will give the Roger Tory Peterson Memorial Lecture, “Bird Artists and Artist Birds: Plumes and Bowers in New Guinea” Sunday, which focuses on his work in natural history. He is a conservationist, natural history filmmaker, and host of the popular BBC series, “The Life of Birds.” The series documented some of the world’s rarest birds and involved 256,000 miles of travel – 10 times around the earth. Tickets free but required in advance...