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Choreographer Stephen Page is talking in hushed tones about the sacred in art, reconciliation and breaking down barriers in a quiet corner of the Festival Centre, the performing hub of the Adelaide Festival, of which he is artistic director. It's a typically spellbinding performance from this Mad Hatter of Australian indigenous arts, whose Bangarra Dance Theatre provided the cosmic corroboree for the Sydney Olympics' opening ceremony in 2000. Then over the speakers comes the clunk-clunk of piano chords as I Go to Rio begins. "Oh, my God," says Page. "It's Peter Allen...
...very notion of financial independence that Donahue seems to be invoking could only ever be an idealistic one. Here, the self-sustaining student who is bereft of parental bailouts remains very much in a minority, while the rest of us buy up big online and worry about which European hub featured on gotoday.com to visit for Spring Break. The state of being “poor” while immersed in a life of privilege is very much a case of surrendering to the temptation to spend everything in the bank account...
...operate a call center if what you really do, your core competence, is run a credit-card business? So credit-card companies hired independent call centers to take over the phones, and that industry put down roots in places like Omaha, Neb., which early on had a fiber-optic hub. But as the price of information technology fell and the Internet exploded, capacity began popping up around the world. Which meant that all you needed to run a call center, or a customer-service center, was information technology (IT) and employees who spoke English. Hello, India...
...There are a number of goals that a mission to Mars could accomplish. Once a base is set up there, it could serve as a staging post for space exploration for destinations beyond. Such a base could also be a communications hub for future space exploration and travel. Mars could become the first in a network of space stations throughout the universe. After a stopover on Mars, travelers could venture farther into space and explore new regions of our galaxy. The case for going to Mars couldn't be more compelling. Sure, today's technology...
Negotiators for the U.S. and the European Union are moving toward liberalizing the transatlantic aviation market. A crucial goal for the U.S. side: more access to London's Heathrow Airport. An old, restrictive U.S.-British pact allows only American and United to fly to the world's busiest hub. For their part, the Europeans want their carriers to be allowed to fly to U.S. cities from anywhere in Europe. KLM, for example, can fly to the U.S. only from its home country, the Netherlands, but would prefer to operate from Paris or London as well. With Air France...