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...Canadian Broadcasting Corp., with its urbane programming, provides a cool antidote to America's increasingly hotheaded airwaves. Toronto's ambitiously international Harbourfront reading series, which brings authors before live audiences, succeeds on a scale unknown in the U.S. And Canada's two primary drama festivals, the Stratford and the Shaw, are heartening examples of that unlikely process by which public money is transformed into classy and sometimes profound entertainment...
...Shaw, located on Lake Ontario between Toronto and Buffalo, occupies three theaters in Niagara-on-the-Lake, a pretty town that might be described as the confluence of a network of bike paths and vineyards. The festival bills itself, justifiably, as a global one-of-a-kind: the world's only theatrical company dedicated exclusively to George Bernard Shaw and to those plays by other authors written during Shaw's lifetime--plays "about the beginning of the modern world...
...woman think more like a man? That's the sort of question one would expect to hear from an unrepentant chauvinist like Shaw's Professor Higgins. But a growing number of scientists have begun wondering the same thing. Relying in part on advanced brain-scanning techniques, they have amassed tantalizing hints that men and women may use their heads in subtly distinctive ways...
...plan, at least. In practice, merging two independent space programs will not be easy. Astronauts and cosmonauts have been training at each other's facilities for nearly a year, and differences in approach have forced both sides to adjust. Language has been one problem. Another, according to Brewster Shaw, NASA's director of space-shuttle operations: "We've learned that the Russians are not as schedule-oriented as we are. Our people stand around and feel they're being slowed down a bit. [The Russians] have a different way of viewing the world than we do. It's kind...
With the welfare bill stalled in the Senate as lawmakers fight over allocating a smaller pot of money, Shaw's facts-be-damned attitude drives Moynihan to distraction. "Knowing what you don't know is a form of knowledge and the beginning of wisdom," he says. "If nothing else, the Rutgers work should finally cause us to slow down and consider what we're doing." And how much would Moynihan bet that his colleagues follow his advice? "Oh," he says, "about nothing...