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...nine years. "Shocking" is how former marketing director Kristin Godfrey described her reaction when she learned the troupe had to be shut down. As a result of plummeting investments at the Argosy Foundation - which sponsored two-thirds of the company's operating budget - the annual contribution became an impossible check to write. Six weeks was all it took, Godfrey says, from the announcement that their main donor was pulling out to the company's final curtain call...
...which a carriage of a train derailed after a wheel broke. No one was injured, but the incident spooked authorities. The federal railway agency launched an investigation and issued several urgent safety recommendations. "According to new safety regulations imposed after the accident on May 1, we have to double-check and replace the wheels of our entire S-Bahn fleet more often than we used to in the past," Jürgen Kornmann, spokesman for Deutsche Bahn, tells TIME. (Read "European Train Travel: Working on the Railroad...
...Caines - the Michelin-starred chef, not the actor - at the ABode Hotel, tel: (44-161) 200 5678. I'd round off the day at the Radisson Edwardian's Opus One bar, tel: (44-161) 835 8904, and if I'm too tipsy to go home after that, I'd check into the Shirley Bassey Suite as the beds there are big enough even...
...which were not repealed until the 1940s, barred Chinese from owning land or property, marrying whites, working in the public sector and testifying against whites in court. The new bill also recognizes the contributions Chinese immigrants have made to the state, particularly their work on the Transcontinental Railroad. (Check out a story about the Asian-American experience in late-20th century California...
...Rand Corp., a U.S. think tank, advised Western governments to "harness" Sufism, saying its adherents were "natural allies of the West." Along similar lines, the Algerian government announced in July that it would promote the nation's Sufi heritage on radio and television in a bid to check the powerful influence of Salafism, a more extreme strain of Islam that is followed by al-Qaeda-backed militants waging a war against the country's autocratic state...