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It's not easy to become a conductor. There are formal academic programs, but you can really learn to conduct only by doing it, and to do it you need an orchestra. "You have no instrument to practice," Alsop told TIME. "You can't get any experience." In her 20s...
The volume centers instead on the Society for Germinal Choice, nicknamed the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank by reporters, which eccentric millionaire Robert Graham founded in 1980 and bankrolled thanks to his patent on shatterproof eyeglasses.
In fairness, the caricature of cigar-chomping Americans trampling over Europe seems misplaced. While some of the major U.S. investors have Americans on staff in Europe, their public face is usually local. "We are not showing up with a cowboy hat," says the principal of one U.S. fund. Ostmeier, for...
DIED. KARIM EMAMI, 75, Iranian translator and devoted supporter of Persian literature and art; in Tehran. Born in Calcutta, Emami studied English at the University of Minnesota before returning to Iran, where he founded a publishing house and a popular Tehran bookstore. Among the best known of his numerous works...
Sometimes, a walk through rural Japan may include almost as many encounters with vending machines and power lines as a stroll through central Tokyo. Unsullied landscape is rare, and few urban Japanese, let alone foreigners, would know where to find it. That's where Walk Japan (walkjapan.com) steps in. Founded...