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...concerts it sponsors every year. The concerts have offered bluegrass, Australian bush music, Irish ceilidh music, and a klezmer band. Information about the instruments, musicians and cultures that created the music is a part of each show, and during the holidays, stories that incorporate musical props are added. Gini Dixon and her family are avid KPBX listeners. "The radio is always on," she says. "I think it broadens my kids' horizons." Her son Mitchell, 5, touts the stories, while his sister Elizabeth, 9, is a fan of the music: "It's hard to chose which kind I like best...
...Prime Minister Tony Blair to prepare a warning for the I.R.A. and other armed groups this week. O'Neill's apology was a clever way of heading off some of that pressure, and some saw it as just a P.R. ploy. "I am very skeptical and cynical," said Jim Dixon, who was severely wounded in a bombing in 1987 that killed 11 people. Others think it is more than a stunt. Tom Donnelly, whose sister died in a bombing 30 years ago, welcomed the expression of regret because he thinks it shows "the I.R.A. are working toward closure." The idea...
...demographics have shifted the balance of power. The deciding votes are now in the west--in Tacoma, Seattle, Bellevue--while the bulk of public lands affected by the west's environmental enthusiasms lie east of the mountains, which are the Northwest's cultural wall, its Mason-Dixon line. To apple farmers six hours east of Seattle, it was the "damned environmentalists" of the Clinton Administration who brought down on their heads something that felt to the locals like an economic Waco. Orchards had prospered because of irrigation made possible by Columbia's dams. After several species of salmon were...
...media giant Bertelsmann gave up entirely on the floundering pay-TV market. Dutch TV production company Endemol, which created the reality series Big Brother, doesn't work with a single pay-TV provider in the Netherlands. "TV in Europe is viewed as a utility," says UBS Warburg analyst Chris Dixon. Even Malone concedes that "these are not investments for wimps," as he told the Wall Street Journal earlier this year in a rare interview. (No one at Liberty Media, including Malone, would comment for this article...
...Boston is sprawling as much as any region in this country. The urban ring is key to absorbing future rounds of growth,” said David Dixon, the incoming president of the Boston Society of Architects...