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...becoming a sort of female Prospero, guiding the course of events. Miss Henritze's voice does not have as wide a pitch range as one would like, but she uses what she has with impressive skill. William Larsen also repeats as her husband Antigonus, who is pursued and eaten by a (wisely stylized) bear...
...agreement was a disappointment for Iran's Interior Minister Jamshid Amouzegar, who led a bloc of OPEC hardliners, including representatives from Algeria, Libya and Venezuela. They argued for a price boost of 10% to 15% on grounds that inflation in the industrial nations has eaten into OPEC'S buying power. Iran, which has huge development bills to pay, has been badly hurt by the recession-induced drop in world petroleum demand and the consequent fall-off in oil revenues...
Most Americans have never heard of Jack Richard Simplot. But they know of his product and doubtless have eaten it. As the "Idaho potato king," as well as the nation's largest supplier and processor of potatoes, Simplot funnels millions of ready-cut spuds to McDonald's, which turns them into millions of French fries to go with its quick-food goodies. But Simplot has a reputation as a wheeler-dealer in his favorite commodity, and last week he found himself entangled in the biggest potato-futures default in the 104 years of the New York Mercantile Exchange...
There was little concern about PCBs until 1968, when an estimated 1,600 Japanese came down with a baffling and painful ailment labeled Yusho (rice-oil poisoning). Their symptoms-skin eruptions, vomiting, inflamed eyes and palsy -occurred after they had eaten rice oil that had been accidentally contaminated by PCBs. Japan promptly banned almost all use of the compounds, even in electrical equipment, and suddenly everyone was wary of their presence. In 1970 the Campbell Soup Co. found high PCB levels in 146,000 New York State chickens destined for its products, and the birds-which probably picked...
...talks to the students in a booming voice while Rick clicks pictures repeatedly. "Rick is the official photographer of everything to do with Harvard," she begins. "He once took my picture skidding along the ice, for a charity show. He's gotten thin! I think he must have eaten nothing. I've been putting it on while you've been taking it off," she says to Rick, gleefully...