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Iowans have a solidity and a temperance that make the state seem like an outpost of Lake Wobegon. The Hawkeye State first embraced Prohibition in 1882, and the lemonade legacy remains: Iowans drink less liquor per capita than the residents of any state save West Virginia, where illegal moonshine is not counted in the standings. Des Moines is the Jell-O-eating capital of the nation. Cakes are still made from scratch: consumers buy ingredients like baking chocolate at roughly double the national norm...
Like Cats and Starlight Express, though, Phantom is likely to prove "castproof," for much of its attraction lies in its spectacular coups de theatre inspired by Victorian stage machinery. Among the highlights: a boat gliding across a gloomy underground lake, and a chandelier that appears to crash onto the audience at the end of Act I. The multiple trapdoors that create many of the illusions -- there are 102 tiny ones to accommodate the candles that rise from the gloom to illuminate the Phantom's subterranean realm -- are all controlled by computer. Says Will Bowen, assistant production manager in London...
...cleanup might have been easier on a lake or in the ocean. In that event, the diesel fuel would have stayed on the surface, where it could have been trapped with floating rubber booms and sucked up with vacuum hoses. But in this case, by the time emergency cleanup crews arrived, the Monongahela's turbulent waters had begun to break up the oil slick and disperse it through the river's depth. The water and oil were further mixed as they tumbled over + locks and dams on the Monongahela and Ohio...
...reported hundreds of cases of a disease that had all but disappeared from the U.S. more than a decade ago. First spotted in Utah in 1985, the new miniepidemic has hit cities in Ohio and $ western Pennsylvania, as well as Denver, Boston and Dallas. At two hospitals in Salt Lake City, doctors who normally see only six new cases each year have treated 150 youngsters in the past 24 months. Worse, physicians, who have never fully understood what causes rheumatic fever, have few clues to explain its re-emergence. The culprit could be an unfamiliar strain of bacteria -- or simply...
Last week a Salt Lake City jury ordered the Seven-Up Co. and a local bottler to pay $10.5 million in damages to Roberts, 82, who is legally blind in her injured eye. A lawyer for Seven-Up said the company would appeal because Roberts used the wrench to twist the cap in the wrong direction...