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...arguments that has been used to persuade their residents to foot part of the bill. But does hosting the Olympics really help a city? To put it mildly, the evidence is mixed. Athens' experience suggests that the supposed financial and economic benefits of Olympics can easily disappear. Costs can exceed budgets, job creation can fall short of forecasts, tourists and spectators can fail to materialize, and - especially in the world after Sept. 11, 2001 - unexpected expenses can crop up. Athens spent about $1.5 billion on security, 12 times its original estimate. Montreal turned a significant profit on operations alone from...
...born librarian, Lionel Mapleson, immortalized dozens of performances from his perch in the prompter's box and, later, from a catwalk 40 ft. above the stage. But then he abandoned the project, and the fragile, two-minute wax cylinders were left to decay and, in some cases, break and disappear. As early as 1938, collectors began preserving the priceless vocal treasures. Now a team of two critics and a recording engineer, under the auspices of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, the Performing Arts Research Center and the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, has heroically rescued...
...after the Big Bang, four dimensions were liberated onto the large scale of the universe, while the remaining six remained rolled up into a little ball at every point in space-time. "What's pretty sure," says Schwarz, "is that today we have to have six of the dimensions disappear. How things got to be this way is a little less clear...
Still, no one expects that either junk bonds or hostile takeovers will disappear in the wake of the Federal Reserve's new regulation. Wily Wall Streeters will undoubtedly soon discover new ways to finance their deals. Even Fed Chairman Paul Volcker predicts that corporate raiders will uncover "innumerable devices" to circumvent the new policy. When that happens, the central bank could decide to take further action...
According to an old medical maxim repeated in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, symptoms of the common cold, "if treated vigorously, will go away within seven days, whereas if left alone they will disappear over the course of a week." Despite years of intensive research, that wry wisdom is still true: there is no cure for the common cold. But the Journal did have some encouraging words for snifflers. In the same issue it published two studies, one conducted at the University of Adelaide, in Australia, the other at the University of Virginia, demonstrating that...