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...Beast," "Les Mis?rables," "The Phantom of the Opera"). Broadway tourists can visit ancient Egypt ("Aida) or Fairy Tale Land ("Into the Woods"). But it's tough to find either a musical that takes place in the here and now - "Urinetown" is a city of the future that looks like Pittsburgh in the Depression - or one that was written in the last five years: just four, if you count "The Producers," three of whose favorite songs come from a 1968 movie...
...Hager was chosen for the post by FDA senior associate commissioner Linda Arey Skladany, a former drug-industry lobbyist with longstanding ties to the Bush family. Skladany rejected at least two nominees proposed by FDA staff members: Donald R. Mattison, former dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, and Michael F. Greene, director of maternal- fetal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Despite pressure from inside the FDA to make the appointment temporary, sources say, Skladany has insisted that Hager get a full four-year term. FDA spokesman Bill Pierce called Hager "well qualified...
Farrell said he hopes to document around 17,000 species in total, including 10,000 species of insects and 6,000 plants—as part of an ecological study he is conducting with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and the Smithsonian Museum...
...sudden-death victory over the New York Giants in the 1958 NFL championship game, still regarded by many as the greatest football game ever played; of a heart attack; in suburban Baltimore. Unitas broke passing records at the University of Louisville but was deemed too small by his hometown Pittsburgh Steelers, who cut him in 1955. The Colts found him playing for $6 a game in a semipro league and signed him to be their third-stringer. Two years later, his precise passes and menacing game face rallied the Colts past the Giants in a match that helped spark...
Four times a day, business travelers shuttle between Cleveland, Ohio, and Pittsburgh, Pa., in oversize leather seats while nibbling on deli sandwiches and sipping their choice of eight gourmet coffees. But they're not flying first class; they're taking the bus. The 27-seat motor coaches offer an alternative to airport-security hassles and delays, says Dale Bunce, CEO of ExecConnect America, the Aiken, S.C., company that operates the service. The trip costs $129 round trip and takes 2 hr. 40 min. (vs. $614 for a 1-hr. flight in coach). Bus travelers can watch cable...