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...demise of "Cats," the soon-to-be-missing "Miss Saigon" and the lack of any new hits from Andrew Lloyd Webber or the "Les Miz" team in years, the era of the Brit-generated mega-musical seems all but over. Happily, straight plays seem to be filling the gap. Demanding dramas like Michael Frayn's "Copenhagen" have become unlikely Broadway hits, while the Manhattan Theatre Club, an off-Broadway stalwart, successfully transferred two strong works, "Proof" and "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife," to the main drag this fall. With regional theaters thriving and even Las Vegas playing host...
...center whose name you can pronounce, because you took a semester of French your freshman year. Of course, the essence of every theme park is to give you just enough of something new while keeping you firmly planted in your own reality, so this particular park also has a Gap, a cell phone store, lots of ATMs and a place that serves the same garlic-parmesan bagels your office does...
...being passed many, many times during the race by folks going at absolute warp speed relative to my feeble plowing. I also distinctly remember - not - passing one single other skier. One thing that would ruin all this good feeling would be a dead last finish with a five-minute gap between me and the dude who was second to last (a distinct possibility considering that the only external reaction I received from anyone during the race was involuntary laughter). It would be tricky to spin that into a success, even with the considerable level of endorphins in my blood right...
...years ago, several students recognized that despite the wealth of valuable peer counseling, education groups and UHS resources, and despite the claim that Houses provide communities for students, there was—and still is—a gap between the two. A program began a year ago to try and bridge that gap. The Community Health Initiative (CHI) is a House-based endeavor that seeks to develop individualized programs for each participating House based on regular surveys of the interests of the students in that House. A group of peer volunteers serve as resources in each House. They...
...facing a world water gap right now, this minute," the World Commission on Water has warned, "and the crisis will only get worse. The consequences of failing to bridge the gap will be higher food prices and expensive food imports for water-scarce countries that are predominantly poor." Hunger and thirst are also linked to political instability and low rates of economic growth...