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...Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. "There's a sense of we want to do something new and edgy," says Jeff Knoedler of Newton South High School outside Boston. "There's only so many times you can trot out Oklahoma! Our kids are doing musicals starting at camp since the fifth grade. They've already been in Fiddler on the Roof twice...
...data attests. Sometimes the ads employ crafty timing or visual distraction to deemphasize the risks. Sometimes they do so simply by using complex language: in a study of 29 drug ads that Day conducted in 2000 and 2001, Dayfound that, on average, benefit information required a sixth-grade level of language comprehension, while side effect information required a ninth-grade level...
...Today Australia exports some 10,000 tons, worth about $200 million - most of it frozen. Almost all is harvested, pulled from harbor pens onto waiting ships to be killed. Japanese buyers like Yoshio Koga of Nihon Marine grade the fish by checking flesh in the tail. Koga wants fish that are fat, red and oily, especially in the cherished toro, or belly meat. They can be on sale in Tokyo's giant Tsukiji fish market within three days...
...that drive down tuna prices? With demand for sashimi-grade fish in Japan at about 500,000 tons a year, Stehr insists Clean Seas won't flood the market. In fact, Japan may not be the market Stehr is aiming for, at least initially. Since tuna grow at less than 1 kg a month, stock next year would likely be only around 7 kg, too small for many of Japan's sashimi buyers. Stehr thinks the Japanese may still want the smaller fish, but sees the U.S., China and Europe as alternative markets. Growing global demand will drive up prices...
...smelling her cashmere sweaters or by smelling Chanel No. 5. Detached from this, I can live this memory only through instants. My memory must be trained to be catalyzed by different things, through someone else’s laugh, through a test I’ve saved from third grade with her signature, or through a scene different than my home. I can run my fingers over it, it is like the dates I used to write down and document, but my reliving is cruelly limited. I am at the mercy of these limitations, of this surreal reality of recollection...