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...Theater is tame? Catch the Gold Dust Orphans troupe performing “Silent Night of the Lambs” during a special Saturday matinee just in time for Christmas. But this isn’t one for the young ’uns; in this take on holiday lore, Santa, according to the Orphans’ website is “a man who, after hundreds of years of back breaking public service, has been driven to devour more than just a plate of stale cookies!” Check it out at the Machine Theater (normally...
...Jefferson County dispute has in some ways been brewing for more than a half century, ever since the Supreme Court in its 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawed school segregation. The busing battles that followed this landmark ruling were the stuff of civil rights lore. But in 1991 the court ruled that school districts could abandon that unpopular strategy and return to neighborhood schooling, even if that meant some schools would resegregate. That's what happened in many districts, and the proportion of black students attending nonwhite-majority schools has increased over the past dozen years from...
Daisuke Matsuzaka has never thrown a pitch in the majors, but that didn't stop the Boston Red Sox from paying the Seibu Lions $51.1 million just for the right to negotiate with the Japanese sensation. The righthander has even inspired some suspicious lore: his "gyroball," a supposedly unhittable sinking fastball (it sounds like a ruse). So buyer beware: while a few highly paid Japanese imports, like Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki and Hideki Matsui of the New York Yankees, became All-Stars, others have memorably struck...
...Dramatic murders are a staple of Hong Kong's courts and media. Last year, the city was mesmerized by the trial of Nancy Kissel, an American expat convicted of drugging her banker husband with a poisoned milkshake and bludgeoning him to death. But despite its gangster lore and its flair for B-movie-style killings, the city of 7 million has one of the world's lowest homicide rates. Murders plummeted from 102 in 1997 to just 34 last year, in part perhaps because the city's gangs have shifted some of their focus to southern China. "Occasionally you have...
...East India Company in Calcutta. But interest in treating diarrhea didn't gain ground until devastating cholera epidemics swept the subcontinent in the middle of the last century. Fluid loss from cholera-related diarrhea occurs so rapidly that its victims can die within four to eight hours or, as lore has it, before they can dig their own graves. Cholera is still a leading cause of diarrhea in Bangladesh's southern Ganges River basin. Vaccines preventing cholera have never been completely effective or long-lasting, so when ICDDR was established as the Cholera Research Laboratory in 1960, its mission...