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...Christmas Present. San Francisco's venerable A.C.T. troupe is reviving its renowned 1976 production, absent since 1993. Says director of marketing Robert Sweibel: "It's the closest thing we have to a surefire hit, and it helps us underwrite more adventurous programming." Theater managers across the country could chime in. So God bless Dickens, from...
...customize his or her daily supply of information: "I'll take the Washington headlines, please, plus the health news, N.F.L. scores, updates on AT&T's stock price--and anything on Madonna." The Daily Me has arrived on our doorstep, not with a thump but with a polite mechanical chime...
These two EPs are far from identical. Twinlights, the first, is almost totally organic. The group's trademark musical sound, the eerie, echoing swirl of Robin Guthrie's distorted guitars, is replaced with fragile picking on an acoustic guitar. Though the occasional soft chime of a synthesizer filters in, the tone is a far cry from the abrasive synth of their first few albums. "Half-Gifts," the final track, even features a four-part string section...
Companies can get trademark protections for distinctive colors that distinguish their brands from others, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled today. Justice Steven Breyer, who wrote the ruling, noted trademarks have been granted for the shape of Coca-Cola bottles, the scent of sewing thread and NBC's three-chime jingle. "If a shape, a sound and a fragrance can act as symbols, why, one might ask, can a color not do the same?" he wrote. The decision reversed a lower court's denial of a trademark for green-gold dry-cleaning press pads made by a Chicago firm. Columbia...
...driving forces behind the agency's decision to study dioxin: "You name almost every hormone system in the body, and dioxin interacts with it. And when you're dealing with hormones, they all talk to each other. When you ring one bell, many others chime...