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...Nutcracker. Over 120,000 people see the show annually, making it the "most popular in the world," according to the Boston Ballet. That title is certainly a well-deserved one. Everything about The Nutcracker is a child's fantasy come true--stunning sets, divine costumes, amazing dancing, a literal ton of plastic confetti snow and 1,200 toe shoes. Well, perhaps all those toe shoes aren't part of the fantasy, but they're still a tribute to the massiveness that is this production...
...obsessed with innovation and efficiency--he would unhesitatingly scrap a relatively new plant to erect a more modern one--Carnegie imported the Bessemer forced-air steel process to America. Such innovation permitted him to reduce the price of rails--the product that initially drove the industry--from $160 a ton in 1875 to $17 by 1900. His steel furnished the sinews of America's burgeoning towns and factories...
Napoleon thought of one, but not until 192 years later would a tunnel under the Channel linking England and the Continent be finished. Beginning on their respective shores, teams of French and English sandhogs used 1,000-ton boring machines to burrow through the 24 miles of chalk, clearing 20 million tons. The two sides...
...counting the fiscal beans, and while everything from rubles to yen to pounds is supposedly bankrolling the work, it's American dollars that are really keeping it going. The project is also 14 years behind schedule and will probably slip further before construction on the 360-ft.-long, 460-ton skyliner is done. Worst of all, once the ISS gets into orbit, there are very real concerns about whether it will have anything truly useful...
...phones. As I raced to the camp headquarters in the rain, I saw this really fine counselor coming by with some of his campers and I stopped paying attention to the trail and tripped! When I fell, my coat flipped over my head and the hottie and a ton of little kids learned Victoria's Secret...