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...days: plays populated by the same modern, upper-middle-class urban sophisticates who, for the most part, are sitting in the audience. What you rarely get - but do in When the Rain Stops Falling, an extraordinary new play by Australian Andrew Bovell now having its U.S. premiere at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater - is something that really throws the audience out of its comfort zone. This challenging play has the most complicated time-shifting dramatic structure I've seen in years. Nothing really falls into place until about halfway through its dark, intense, intermissionless hour and 45 minutes...
...second inning, with the scored tied at zero, Loyola Marymount’s Brittany Pereda recorded a two-run homer to center field off Harvard sophomore pitcher Rachel Brown. The Lions later built on that lead by scoring again in the fifth inning to make the score...
...addition, Harvard displayed flashes of defensive brilliance, with junior Ellen Macadam’s diving catch in shallow center field resulting in a double play to end the fifth inning. The sixth inning turned into a slugfest, with the Crimson recording three runs on four hits and the Bison taking four runs to make the game...
...proven military techniques that have been used for decades to hone war-fighting skills. The Air Force and Navy, for example, maintain "aggressor squadrons" of F-5 and MiG warplanes to give U.S. military pilots practice against the tactics of potential foes. And the Army's National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., has long boasted a highly trained "op-for" - opposition force - that regular U.S. Army units engage in realistic war games...
...Food labels are a big issue in the U.S. at the moment too. Earlier this month, a lobbying group called the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) issued a report calling for the U.S. government to require food and drink companies to summarize nutritional information with "easy to comprehend" symbols on the package front. First Lady Michelle Obama, who has made reducing childhood obesity one of her key goals, said recently that she'd like to see food companies start using more customer-friendly labels "so parents won't have to spend hours squinting at words that they...