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...real lab type experiment we have, and the results are strong,” Freeman wrote in an e-mail. But ABC Carpet and Home caters to a specific well-to-do demographic, said one professor. “One issue is that it’s saying that rich yuppies care about social labeling (if you have ever been to ABC, then you will understand),” wrote Raymond J. Fisman, a visiting professor from the Columbia School of Business, in an e-mail. Hiscox said he is planning to undertake a major social labelling experiment with...
...DIED. MAUREEN STAPLETON, 80, brilliant, adamantly unglamorous actress who, despite an utterly unpretentious style?"The main thing is to keep the audience awake," she said of her craft?won awards and critical raves for astute, rich performances over her 60-year career; in Lenox, Massachusetts. She got her break in 1951 as a passionate Italian-American widow in Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo, for which she won a Tony Award. Later she created roles in such Neil Simon plays as Plaza Suite, and won an Oscar for her portrayal of anarchist Emma Goldman in the 1981 film Reds...
DIED. MAUREEN STAPLETON, 80, brilliant, adamantly unglamorous actress who, despite an utterly unpretentious style--"The main thing is to keep the audience awake," she said of her craft--won awards and critical raves for astute, rich performances over her 60-year career; in Lenox, Mass. She got her break in 1951 as a passionate Italian-American widow in Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo, for which she won a Tony. Later she created roles in Neil Simon plays like Plaza Suite and won an Oscar for her portrayal of anarchist Emma Goldman in the 1981 film Reds...
...Emerging Republican Majority, got away from him a long time ago. The party it developed into, the one in which evangelical Christians carry lots of clout and budget balancers just about none, is not for him. With best sellers like Wealth and Democracy, about the widening split between rich and poor, and American Dynasty, which treated the Bush clan as well-connected mediocrities, he shifted to the role of ever more sour apostate. Don't expect him to be invited to the next Republican Convention, although it's not hard to imagine him standing outside with a sign warning against...
...Willandra is starkly arid. But it wasn't always so forbidding. For thousands of years during the last Ice Age, when it was possible to walk from Tasmania to Papua New Guinea, water was everywhere, with a series of five large, interconnected lakes and 14 smaller ones offering a rich larder - mussels, golden perch and cod, as well as marsupials and water birds - for communities camped on their shores. As the lakes receded and were refilled, prevailing winds layered sand and clay on their eastern shores into giant crescent-shaped dunes, or lunettes. And by the time the lakes dried...