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...year ago in the buckhead section of Atlanta, in the early hours of Monday, a long-running post-Super Bowl party was breaking up at the posh Cobalt Lounge. A scuffle between two groups turned into a fight; a Champagne bottle was broken over someone's head; two men fell. Jacinth Baker, 21, and Richard Lollar, 24, had been knifed and were dying. A big man who had tried to break up the fight jumped into a limo, which wheeled away as shots rang out. The man's name was Ray Lewis, and he was heading into a year that...
...stagelight casts an almost messianic shadow on the back of the stage. Set and lighting, in fact, hold Ibsen's character-oriented play to a high-wire of beauty. Piping classical music brings out a gracile quatro of stage hands between acts one and two: They lay out light-cobalt platforms which in turn absorb a dull, icy lighting scheme. As the A.R.T.'s actors quickly sketch their tragedy (an uber-fable about ambition and hubricguilt), its stagecraft is relentlessly Scandinavian, so that the dark, philosophically neurotic A.R.T. paradigm feels like nothing more than atypical (or stereotypical) Norwegian aesthetic...
...children's easel, decorated with a picture of a snowman, is thus featured in one of the windows; in another, stacks of cobalt blue glassware-big sellers in the Square-are prominent...
...well as salmonella, listeria and other dangerous pathogens implicated in the millions of cases of food poisoning in the U.S. that cost some 9,000 lives each year. Dubbed "cold pasteurization" by the food industry, the controversy-plagued technology uses powerful gamma rays released by the common medical radioisotope cobalt 60 or streams of high-energy electrons from an accelerator. The bug-zapping power of the process is undisputed. The ionizing radiation, millions of times stronger than ordinary X rays, kills molds, bacteria and small insects by wrecking their DNA, while leaving the exposed food virtually unchanged and radiation free...
...Marguerite Michaels. The main message is, without question, he is going to Kinshasa. Meanwhile, another branch of Kabila's army was closing on Lubumbashi, capital of the mineral-rich province Shaba. Kabila will be welcomed as always, not least by the Western companies that hope to revive the crumbling cobalt and copper mining operations in the region. "Kabila has what he calls a "commission" set up in each town, especially mining towns, that his forces liberate," says Michaels. "He talks to businessmen, to foreign companies, trying to get the mines up and working again. He dickers his own deals." That...