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...company donates "seven figures a year," according to Simon, to the Omaha Symphony, the Omaha Performing Arts Society and Opera Omaha, among others. Simon cites a local 2007 study showing that every $1 million added to the budgets of Omaha's nonprofit arts organizations generates three times that amount in economic activity, plus $1 million in wages and salaries and almost $1 million in annual state and local taxes. Simon's executive summary: "You can't argue with those kinds of numbers ... especially when you consider the power of the arts to educate, energize and bring people together...
...point out one helpful hint for those who have cut back on their movies, newspapers, magazines, books and Internet services? Check out your local library, which still offers all these services to everyone for free. Jackie Siegert, MADISON, MINN...
Global health experts addressed the potentially devastating implications of global hunger and encouraged students to raise local awareness at a symposium held in the Science Center yesterday evening. Participants in the four-person discussion, entitled “The Ingredients of Food Security,” included Howard A. Zucker, the former assistant director-general of the World Health Organization, along with colleagues in economics, political science, and humanitarian outreach. Zucker began the event by asking attendees to consider the amount of food that goes to waste during an average restaurant dinner. “Now just imagine...
...show also spends a lot of time going to places we haven’t been. In the second act, Feynman follows his departed Eurydice to the underworld, where the loudspeaker that greets him turns out to be very funny: “Welcome to Hell! Where the local time is . . . irrelevant.” Tied to nothing but Videt’s own imagination, Feynman’s performance of the Orpheus myth doesn’t work so well—it’s the one time the word “pretentious” skidded across...
...Massachusetts House approved a plan to raise the sales tax from 5 to 6.25 percent on Monday night, a hike that officials said represents a trade off between preventing cuts in services and hurting the local economy...