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...musicals, with their ready-made tourist appeal. And while there's the usual spate of revivals - from crowd-pleasing chestnuts (Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, starring a blithely ageless Angela Lansbury) to more challenging rediscoveries (Ionesco's Exit the King, with an all-stops-out performance by Geoffrey Rush) - what's really striking is the number of new plays that think they've found a home on the Great White Way. (See the top 10 plays and musicals...
...paleontologists say fakes, typically made into the shape of bones using plastic, charcoal and construction materials, now make up the majority of institutional fossil collections China. And though China's vast land mass means there are probably still plenty of valuable and legitimate fossils out there, China's fossil rush might already be a thing of the past. In 2002, the government tightened its cultural-relics law to ban private fossil-trading, drying up both legal and black-market trade...
Limbaugh, Rush •ten utterances by that are notable not for being raucously funny or wise but rather for being stupid and/or hateful and/or racist...
Klavan, Andrew •absurd contention of that Rush Limbaugh is not a vile, hate-spewing ignoramus - "I have never heard the man utter a single racist, hateful or stupid word" - but is actually "raucously funny and wise" and that anyone who fails to appreciate this "has never actually listened to the man," and is "a lowdown, yellow-bellied, lily-livered intellectual coward" who is "terrified of finding out he makes more sense than...
...tightened restrictions on gun sales at gun shows ... but national legislation died in Congress. An epidemic of profiling swept U.S. high schools, but it was based largely on the erroneous idea that the killers were bullied outcasts. Armed-standoff tactics changed too. SWAT teams are now more likely to rush into a building and take down shooters immediately rather than establishing a perimeter and waiting for more information. That strategy may have saved lives at Virginia Tech, where in 2007, Cho Seung-Hui killed 32. (See pictures of the Virginia Tech shooting...