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During the callbacks the singers display their acting ability in front of the producer, musical director and the director, Fratto says. Although the second round is important, Fratto says that singing ability was the key factor in choosing cast members...
Twenty years later we may not have fallen so far, but a report prepared for the anniversary of the Kerner study reveals that we still have miles to go. Now the key issue is no longer legal barriers to advancement, but economic setbacks...
...being a junior professor is a competitive business; less than one-tenth make it to the senior ranks. The key to the door, according to professors and administrators, is publication. Trying to juggle research, teaching, administrative duties and maternity leave, women faculty often fall short of Harvard's expectations for publication. The net result is that in the past 10 years only 14 more women have been added to the rolls of senior faculty at Harvard--of 383 tenured professors, only 27 are women...
Costa Rica, by contrast, seems an unlikely target for the Medellin cartel. The country has no army, is not dominated by greedy generals or politicians, and is proud of a democratic tradition. Yet Costa Rica's ports and its more than 200 rural airstrips have become key transit points for cocaine cargos. In recent years the Costa Rican business community has noticed that shipments of perishable products receive a less rigorous Customs inspection than nonperishable goods upon entering the U.S. Thus they are often used to conceal drugs...
Archaeologists in Thailand have spent years assembling thousands of stone blocks to restore the Temple of Phnom Rung, a monument of the Khmer dynasty (A.D. 802-1250). A key part of the temple has mysteriously turned up 10,000 miles away at Chicago's Art Institute, and the Thais are demanding it back...