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...script certainly caused some obstacles for Vartikar-McCullough. “I think working with such intense material and addressing [it] in a way that makes the actors feel comfortable working together was sort of this long process. The challenge in the beginning was getting past this huge gap that the text puts between the actors naturally.” Still, this challenge has been worth the effort. “The most rewarding thing for me has been working with the actors,” he says. Vartikar-McCullough envisions a new sort of theater and hopes that...
...reversal of the traditional one-way innovation highway - from the West to the rest of the world - many of the best ideas in sanitation are coming from the developing world. And for now, the gap between these initiatives and the large-scale urban sanitary solutions of tomorrow is being filled by inventors and dreamers like Jack Sim and others who gathered this week in Macau. Among their larger visions for collective waste disposal and treatment on display was a network of low-water toilets that separated solids from liquids and assigned them to reservoirs shared by an apartment building...
...idea of the gap between a winner and an also-ran in motor racing's toughest series, consider the contrasting fortunes of two drivers in the Nov. 2 Brazilian Grand Prix, the final race of the year. In just his second season in Formula One, 23-year-old Briton Lewis Hamilton became its youngest ever world champion, sensationally grabbing fifth place on the last corner of the Interlagos track in São Paulo to claim motor sport's premier prize by a single point from hometown hero and Ferrari star Felipe Massa. Italian Giancarlo Fisichella was less fortunate. Fisichella...
...people who govern Formula One have been trying to reduce these financial and competitive gaps for years. Rule changes between seasons often ban new technologies, or at least limit their further development. In the season that just ended drivers were required to do without the hugely expensive computerized traction-control systems that make cornering easier and racing more boring. Such rule changes have boosted competition in the last five years by helping to narrow the gap between the fastest and slowest cars by two to three seconds. Now the global financial crisis has added a new sense of urgency...
...Still, as of mid-September, McCain, with Palin at his side, had closed the gender gap, ignited his base, delighted Rush Limbaugh and seemed to be having fun for the first time in ages. He hammered the point that he was the only one who had been tested in a crisis. It was working great - until he was tested in a crisis. The assumption all year was that if the Furies delivered turmoil to the doorstep of this election, the country would retreat to the safe choice and not risk a rookie. It was Obama's triumph that the financial...