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...revival of ‘dramatic spirit’” among undergraduates along with a “new drive for theater” among all students, the announcement was followed by a similar article next fall that characterized the trend as a “boom in dramatic activity” on campus. In 1957, the year’s tally of theatrical productions rose to an impressive 45 (not including the Houses’ Christmas pageants...
After a long recession in the 1990s, for much of the past seven years Toronto has enjoyed an enormous building boom. Downtown is stuffed with new corporate headquarters. Around the shore of Lake Ontario the skyline is bristling with condo towers. Nearly all the construction from these years has been fairly conventional, though - this is still a city where the developer's box rules. But in one part of town, the rules have changed. On June 2 the venerable Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) will officially open a new addition designed by the architect Daniel Libeskind in his most implacable...
...Chatham House in London, the U.S. imported more oil from Africa than from the Middle East in 2005, and more from the Gulf of Guinea than from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait combined. Nigeria, the giant of the region, supplies 10-12% of U.S. oil imports. "There's a huge boom across the region," says Erik Watremez, a Gabon-based oil and gas specialist for Ernst & Young. "Exploration, drilling, rigs, pipes. It's exploding." Ann Pickard, Shell's regional executive vice president for Africa, agrees: "The Gulf of Guinea is an increasingly important place...
Nowadays travel is accessible to most everyone, and the current boom in the luxury-goods business has given Samsonite reason to revisit its roots. When shopping for Black Label Couture, customers can choose the lining, trim, hardware and thread that will be used to make their bags--a total of more than 2,000 different possible combinations, including unconventional materials like velvet, alligator and patent leather. With the aid of computer technology, sales associates can show customers what their creation will look like as they style it. Depending on the materials and style, prices range from...
...began to spread rapidly on Roatan after Hurricane Mitch in October 1998, when thousands of mainland Hondurans, left homeless and destitute by the storm, moved to Roatan seeking jobs in the tourism and development boom. Unable to find even the most menial employment because they could only speak Spanish (islanders speak both English and Spanish on Roatan), many turned to prostitution, fueling an already burgeoning rate of infection...