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...piano sensation Lang Lang; studio legends Steely Dan are on a double bill with a quintessential live act, the Dave Matthews Band; and New York City bassist Bill Laswell, purveyor of "collision music," is bringing along Japanese turntablist DJ Krush. "Who knows what will happen?" asks Nobs. "Everyone has total carte blanche...
Every night at 11 p.m. the village of Dörentrup in central Germany is thrown into total darkness. For the past few years, the village's cash-strapped local council has been switching off all the streetlights in the village each evening until 6 a.m. the following morning. In most places, a nightly blackout would provoke outrage as residents find themselves fumbling and stumbling their way home through the dark. But in Dörentrup, they have seen the light, with a new scheme that allows residents to turn on streetlights on demand - anytime, anywhere - using just their cell...
...include two themed areas - "Grizzly Trail" and "Mystic Point" - which will be exclusive to Hong Kong's Magic Kingdom for their first five years. A third area, "Toy Story Land" - based on the Disney/Pixar Toy Story film - will be exclusive within the Asian region. The expansion will boost the total number of attractions to more than 100 and enlarge its current space by nearly a third...
...same fraction seen at the Medical School but only half of that seen at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. As of June 30 last year, the Kennedy School's endowment stood at $1.1 billion, although University administrators have for months projected a 30 percent decline in Harvard's total endowment over the course of this fiscal year. Current use gifts compose another 20 percent of the Kennedy School's budget—the largest amount at all of Harvard's schools, with the Law School next highest at 12 percent...
...cartoon series, is expected to have earned an astral $201 million, according to Paramount, its producing studio. That's nearly a third higher than the previous top Wednesday-to-Sunday take - $152.4 million, for Spider-Man 2 in 2004 - and within a hair of the all-time five-day total, $203.7 million (Friday to Tuesday), for last year's The Dark Knight. Add the $200 million or so that this Armageddon for machines picked up in foreign theaters over the same stretch, and you have a $400 million world domination. (We'll add just one more $200 million figure: that...