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When Ford stumbled, it was because he wanted to do everything his way. By the late 1920s the company had become so vertically integrated that it was completely self-sufficient. Ford controlled rubber plantations in Brazil, a fleet of ships, a railroad, 16 coal mines, and thousands of acres of timberland and iron-ore mines in Michigan and Minnesota. All this was combined at the gigantic River Rouge plant, a sprawling city of a place where more than 100,000 men worked...
...scenes gave some indication that the production was updated for a '90s audience; this may well be the case, as Boston Conservatory faculty member Michelle Chass redid the choreography for this performance. Case in point: a random "flashback" to Donna Lucia's life in the steamy tropical forests of Brazil introduced an unmistakable erotic element into the performance a bit out of keeping with the British conservatism played up by the rest of the musical. Maybe it wouldn't have flown 50 years ago, but it did enliven the stage without being overly out of place...
...taken about two science courses per semester during his four years at Harvard, "so I spend almost every day in the bio labs." He spent two and a half years working for Millenium Pharmaceuticals, a Cambridge biotechnological firm, and has worked for the Ministry of Health in Brazil since the summer...
...Mandarin. In Hong Kong. It's dubbed into--what do they speak in Brazil...
...assess the feasibility of using landfill gases to generate power in Brazil; to develop an electric-vehicle demonstration program for India; to improve energy efficiency in Egypt, according to a company brochure, by "encouraging Cairo's 2,500 bakeries to switch from filthy fuel oil to cleaner, more efficient natural gas." Nice, but should American taxpayers be paying...