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...concert revival of a Broadway show sounds simple enough - get the sheet music, assemble a band and a cast, and start playing. Not always. A 17th century Monteverdi opera has cleaner, fuller charts than many an old Broadway hit, whose arrangements might have ended up in the garage or the garbage. The sheet music for the Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II "Sweet Adeline," which had been performed outdoors, was festooned with mosquito carcasses. As Judith Daykin, who brought the series to City Center, told TIME's Elaine Rivera for an Encores! story we did in 1998: "The musicians didn't know...
GAVIN: The No. 1 lesson is we have to make sure we have a market for our products. Who cared about a website for a dry cleaner? I don't think the health-care area was hit hard by the bubble. We have waveswe don't have bubblesin health care. It's very capital intensive, which works against that trend...
...Nauru, says 23-year-old Finea, ?all people talk about is what we?re going to eat and what the President is doing.? Soap is now a luxury and Finea, a cleaner, hasn?t been paid since February. And if money doesn?t arrive? ?I don?t know,? she says with a small laugh. ?Maybe we?ll all drop dead...
...huge maintenance complex in Tulsa, Ralph Dwain Garrison and Jack (Robin) Hood schemed to save drill bits costing as much as $200 each that were routinely being tossed after a few uses. Garrison took the motor from his son's science project and slapped on a vacuum-cleaner belt to create "Thumpin' Ralph"--a machine to sharpen old drill bits for reuse. Savings? Over $300,000. "The old mind-set--unions vs. management--it's still there for about 10% of the people," says machinist Jim Messick. "But if we want to survive as unions and as a company...
...recently made the Sydney Morning Herald's best-dressed list. His reversible floral-print pants might not be for everybody, but his convention-defying couture should endure. "It's perfect in the wild," he says of his hand-washable linen suit. "You don't need a Laundromat or dry cleaner...