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Well, it's true that Broadway's newest Tevye, Alfred Molina (painter Diego Rivera in the movie Frida), is of Spanish-Italian heritage. And most of his daughters (and his wife Golde, played by Randy Graff) look like any other Broadway babies on the stage of the mammoth Minskoff Theatre. British director David Leveaux, moreover, has removed or toned down much of the shtetl shtick that has become identified with the show, the sort of thing that has kept Hadassah theater groups happy for decades. But that's no reason to dismiss a striking Broadway revival that manages to shake...
...kind of love-child of professional wrestling and “Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers.” Men and women, dressed as everything from man-sized plantains to frolicking tree trunks to one-eyed aliens, battle in what the creators bill as a “mammoth fight of good versus evil...
...round-trip flight time between Earth and Mars and perhaps a 1 1/2-year stay on the planet to catch the next Earth-Mars alignment back home. Even if it were possible to build a ship big enough to carry all that cargo, you would still have to muscle the mammoth thing off the ground. At some point it simply becomes impossible to build a rocket big enough...
Just what can the U.S. make? Plenty, it turns out. But America's future as a manufacturing power will look very different from its past. Thomas Duesterberg, president of the Manufacturers Alliance, an industry research group based in Washington, has a vision for the new U.S. factory. Unlike the mammoth facilities of the past that focused on large production runs, the factory that Duesterberg's group has in mind is one that makes customized, sophisticated products with technology embedded into every part and process. "We contrast that with the old, comic-book picture of manufacturing, which is making one piece...
...adult lift ticket (its rival asks $59). A six-person express lift will take skiers from the base to above Timberline. Moonlight's 3,050 ft. of vertical descent, including 1,200 ft. of inbound hike-up terrain, is on a par with the long drops of Park City, Mammoth, Killington and Deer Valley. --By Pat Dawson