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Ireland's newest intended export to the U.S. may not have the sparkle of Waterford crystal or the rich flavor of Guinness Stout, but it sure is earthy. The product is peat, the decayed moss that the Irish have traditionally harvested from the bottom of bogs and burned for heat and in cooking. The Irish Turf Board said last week that sometime this fall it aims to start selling briquettes of the material -- packed in shamrock-adorned cardboard boxes containing twelve lbs. each -- in U.S. supermarkets. Ireland's peat harvesters hope the carton of sod will be a popular souvenir...
...laughing and applauding at the Tianqiao (Heavenly Bridge) Theater. Reason: these capitalist roaders are stepping out on a new stretch of that irresistibly American thoroughfare known as the Great White Way. Since March, ten Americans, led by Director George White of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Conn., have been working with 100 Chinese to stage the first American musicals ever seen in the country, The Music Man and The Fantasticks. For Music Man, which just opened, the Chinese took special pains to re-create the show-biz pomp and color of the original 1957 production, though...
...generations of experts in infectious disease at Harvard University (1929-77), whose techniques for growing viruses outside the human body and attenuating them so that safe, effective vaccines could be created led to the near eradication of many childhood diseases, including measles and polio, in developed countries; in Waterford, Conn...
...John F. Enders, who during nearly 50 years as a Harvard scientist won wide acclaim and a Nobel prize for helping to develop vaccines against polio, measles and mumps, died Sunday night at his summer home in Waterford, Conn. He was 88 years...
Nice theory, but it is not working. In fact, many pedigreed imports remain as pricey as ever. For example, an Irish-made Waterford crystal decanter typically costs $159 in the U.S., the same price as two years ago when the Irish pound was worth about 25% more. The 18-karat, Swiss-made gold Rolex Presidential watch actually went up in U.S. list price during the past three years, from $7,950 to $8,850, even though the Swiss franc has fallen in value about...