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...blocks from Times Square as part of the seventh annual Festival of New Musicals. Five shows, in 55-minute concert versions, were staged by the National Alliance for Musical Theatre under the deft stewardship of Joseph McConnell. The Alliance serves 83 regional theater and light-opera companies, from mammoth (the 11,059-seat St. Louis Muny) to mini (the 104-seat Village Theatre, in Issaquah, Washington), all of them searching for that vanishing species, the Broadway-style musical...
...second problem was the need for a University network infrastructure, which would be a movement against tradition. Now, the ADP is undertaking the mammoth task of achieving standardization throughout the University...
...correspondent Karen Tumulty says that's probably just what Republicans will do: "Welfare reform could come up as early as next week, but they probably won't get very far on it," she says. Instead, the GOP may "attempt the impossible" by lumping Medicare and welfare together in a mammoth budget reconciliation bill...
...upper layers of the permafrost also allows leaves frozen since the Pleistocene era to return to their slow-motion decay. For years scientists were puzzled by the age of methane gases released from arctic lakes, which radiocarbon dating revealed to be more than 10,000 years old. Mammoths that strode the earth in millenniums past are still discovered almost perfectly preserved in the permafrost meat locker. Many believe the present-day Yakutian horse is itself a throwback to the era of the ice ages. With such conflation of past and present, it seems almost reasonable when one Russian ecologist, Sergei...
What, until recently, most 'zines had in common was that they were as non-commercial, communal and idealistic as the Internet itself. But all that changed with the advent last year of HotWired, the sassy online sister of Wired, and later of Pathfinder, Time Warner's mammoth collection of magazines-come-to-the-Net. Advertisers sensed new possibilities. And why not? The typical Internet user is a Madison Avenue parfait: mid-30s, hyper educated, mostly male, and with plenty of disposable income and free time...