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...Little Shop of Horrors 2. Seussical, the Musical 3. Thoroughly Modern Millie 4. Beauty and the Beast 5. Disney's High School Musical 6. Grease 7. Fiddler on the Roof 8. Bye Bye Birdie, Oklahoma! (tie) 10. Anything Goes, Guys and Dolls...
...Games. The country has not hosted the Olympics since the 1980 Moscow Games, which the U.S. boycotted to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. So the win for Sochi, proclaimed a reporter on Russia's state television station, was "perhaps the greatest success in Russia's modern history...
...modern-day Lamont, at least, this is true—everyone has the chance to experience confusing stairs, hidden bathrooms, and stale sushi at three in the morning. Equality rocks...
...Niall C. Ferguson and focused on what Zakaria described as the “rise of the rest,” particularly China and India. Zakaria—whose new book “The Post-American World” was released this month—said that the modernization of developing countries could actually benefit the U.S. Zakaria, who was born in Bombay and educated at Yale and Harvard, said that since these nations have so far avoided the “bellicose” confrontations that often accompany rapid growth, peaceful relations between these countries and the West...
Back in the 1970s, Hayden's argument wouldn't have been surprising. That era, which saw the birth of the modern environmental movement (the first Earth Day was observed in 1970), was obsessed with the idea of global limits, that without drastic intervention, we were doomed to overpopulation. Books like Paul Erhlich's The Population Bomb warned that the Earth was reaching the end of its carrying capacity, and that within decades, hundreds of millions of people would starve to death. The only way to avoid this Malthusian fate was rigid population control, which many environmentalists were in favor...