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...motivation for going green is sometimes idealistic, sometimes materialistic and usually a little of both. There is no question that traditional office structures are environmentally wasteful and destructive. In the U.S., such buildings account for one-third of the nation's peak electricity consumption: they are costly to operate and will become even more so when new energy taxes go into effect. Furthermore, nearly one-quarter of all ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons are emitted by office air conditioners and the manufacturing processes used to make building materials. Of more immediate concern to workers is the miserable quality of the air they...
...unresponsive instrument in Berlin, has been a left- handed pianist since 1979. Fleisher, a towering performer whose 1958-62 cycle of Beethoven concertos with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra remains a pinnacle of modern recordings, first noticed a loss of feeling in his right hand at the peak of his career in 1964. A year later, at age 38, he ! was incapable of using it at the keyboard, and he ceased performing his full repertoire...
...meteorologist Bruce W. Schwoegler says that some allergens, such as tree pollen, are in constant supply. But the peak season for the Boston area, says Schwoegler, is late May and early June...
Hitting a Peak...
...American playwright uses factual material more imaginatively than Lee Blessing, whether speculating about arms-control negotiations in the witty A Walk in the Woods or ruminating on how the national pastime embodies our darkest heritage in the antiheroic biography Cobb. He hits a new peak in TWO ROOMS, a depiction of a Beirut hostage and his grieving wife that merges harrowing narrative with elegantly poetic, and redemptive, visual and verbal imagery. A brilliant, too-brief off-Broadway staging by James Houghton, starring Jeffrey Hayenga and the unforgettable Laura Esterman, has just closed. The play deserves further productions around the country...