Word: performer
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...David Mamet refuse an all-female troupe the right to perform his plays? The New York City-based QuintEssential Theatre Co. chose a series of pieces from Mamet's "Goldberg Streets" as its inaugural production. "We picked works we felt were gender nonspecific," says member Natasha Borg. The group got the OK from the two publishing houses that shared the rights, Dramatists Play Services and Samuel French. "When applying for the rights, you must list all the cast members," says Borg. "They could see we were all women." But a few weeks before the Jan. 6 performance, the group received...
Cefalo urged hospitals to reduce the number of caesarean sections by better monitoring the labor process and by not rushing to perform the procedure...
...saying the number of caesarean deliveries in the U.S. is higher than it should be. The College declined, however, to recommend an ideal rate. This October, in a move Sachs said was a step in the right direction, the college published guidelines to aid doctors in determining when to perform vaginal births after a prior caesarean section...
Sachs said managed care companies often provide incentives for hospitals and doctors to perform fewer caesarean sections. Physicians sometimes do not get referrals if their caesarean section rates are too high...
...genetic database has operated since 1995, suspects are routinely screened this way--more than 360,000 gene prints are online--though police do promise that such profiles will be scrubbed from the record if the person is cleared. English officials investigating a crime in a small town sometimes perform mass screenings in which thousands of people are asked to surrender a mouth swab full of DNA. The law gives anyone the right to decline, but as residents of Lawrence, Mass., are learning, no law can prevent the slit-eyed look police give a person who actually chooses to exercise that...