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Debi Lane's nightmare began last November with a routine thyroid test. When she returned for the results the next day, doctors at the Desert Samaritan Hospital in Mesa, Ariz., had chilling news. "There's been a terrible mistake," they told the 41-year-old mother of four. "Basically, we've killed your thyroid...
...evolving as it recognizes other accents, other rhythms, other struggles. There was a moment when certain East Coast urban men told us everything about the universe that we could know. Then the trade routes shifted. I think that the great mesa to stand on now is on the Pacific Coast. Not a mountain, but a mesa...
...McDonnell Douglas (1988 defense sales: $9.7 billion), the largest U.S. military contractor, reported a loss of $48 million during the same period. If Cheney sells his plan to end production of the company's AH-64 Apache helicopter in 1991, as many as 4,000 McDonnell Douglas workers in Mesa, Ariz., and Culver City, Calif., could lose their jobs...
South Coast Repertory Theater in Costa Mesa, which has emerged as one of the foremost venues for new work, served Henley well in its straightforward production of Abundance, a skeptical re-examination of 19th century frontier mythology through the eyes of two mail-order brides. Henley's underlying theme seems to be the way people change during the course of life, often swapping roles with intimates: the exuberant pioneer gradually becomes a timid drudge, while her starry-eyed friend hardens into an adventurer. The final scenes do too much too fast and too vaguely. But the script has the makings...
Once they surely would have been limited to New York City, but today established playwrights launch shows in Miami, Denver, Seattle -- even Costa Mesa, Calif...