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...Incredible as it may seem, many of the classic designs from the 1930s, '40s and '50s are still in production at the Fritz Hansen furniture company (www.fritzhansen.com), based in the Copenhagen suburb of Allerod. The firm manufactures about 200,000 chairs a year from original designs. Klint's original Church chair, designed in 1936, still enjoys robust sales. "We believe in timeless products that will never go out of fashion," says Torben Holme Nielsen, the firm's marketing director. "We don't add on anything that is not necessary. No extras." Not many of these classics will find their...
...Medicine, showed that placebos offer no significant advantage over "no treatment" for dozens of conditions ranging from colds and seasickness to hypertension and Alzheimer's disease. (The exception is pain relief, which sugar pills seem to bring to about 15% of patients.) Dr. Asbjorn Hrobjartsson of the University of Copenhagen, who led the study, speculates that much of the improvement attributed to the placebo effect may have been the result of a disease's natural fluctuation or of patients' unconscious desire to please their doctors...
Also at the teething stage is a project involving 50 families in Ballerup, a sleepy little Danish town not far from Copenhagen. Here, E2Home, a joint venture of mobile-phone maker Ericsson and appliances giant Electrolux, has equipped each family with Electrolux's much-publicized Screenfridge, an appliance I saw last fall at another demo home, in Ericsson's Stockholm compound. The engineers there thought it was the coolest thing in the world - a fridge with a full-fledged computer built into its door, with a large screen and an Internet connection. I recall being very skeptical. Who surfs...
...missing "Miss Saigon" and the lack of any new hits from Andrew Lloyd Webber or the "Les Miz" team in years, the era of the Brit-generated mega-musical seems all but over. Happily, straight plays seem to be filling the gap. Demanding dramas like Michael Frayn's "Copenhagen" have become unlikely Broadway hits, while the Manhattan Theatre Club, an off-Broadway stalwart, successfully transferred two strong works, "Proof" and "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife," to the main drag this fall. With regional theaters thriving and even Las Vegas playing host to performance troupes like Blue Man Group...
...PROOF David Auburn's intriguing mix of memory play and math lesson concerns a professor's daughter who may or may not have solved a famous math enigma. Of the year's two brainy science plays (the other: "Copenhagen"), this is the one that touches the heart...