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...culprit, arrested by local police, is a rival whose eatery suffered because the Heshengyuan snack shop was more popular. Such culinary skulduggery isn't new: earlier this summer the owner of a rice-noodle shop in the southern province of Guangxi poisoned a competing shop's broth, causing gastric distress for 57 diners. Other restaurateurs routinely pay off health inspectors to close down rivals. All this has left many Tangshan residents wary of dining out. "From now on, I think I'll stay home and eat," says He Liangjun, a cobbler who frequented the Heshengyuan eatery. Only problem is, neither...
...fifth decade as a playwright, Alan Ayckbourn is one of British theater's senior knights. But the 63-year-old author of such bittersweet comic masterpieces as House/Garden and The Norman Conquests remains as productive as ever. His latest, Damsels In Distress, is a trilogy of self-contained plays that share the same cast but are unrelated save for the Thames-side apartment in which they...
...risky way to write. You need rules to motor that inspiration." Scholarly in tone, the book provides what he calls 101 "Obvious Rules" for successful writing and directing. Having laid down the law, how well do his own plays follow them? Pretty closely, on the evidence of Damsels in Distress...
...freight. "Back in Germany! How I envy you," enthuses Max Eisenstein to his old friend Martin Schulse in the opening missive. The warmth of the relationship is palpable as they recount their happy hours together, the minutiae of their business dealings and their increasingly divergent lives. "I am in distress at the press reports that come pouring in to us from the Fatherland," writes a worried Eisenstein from San Francisco a few letters later. Schulse observes cheerily from Munich: "I tell you, my friend, there is a surge - a surge. The people everywhere have had a quickening. You can feel...
Trouble Spots From depleted forests to dying reefs, distress signals dot the globe. Even in the U.S., with its relatively clean environment, excessive carbon emissions fuel global warming...