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...company to maintain a seven-days-a-week production schedule to keep up with demand. Even though Prestige Ameritech is a wholesaler that sells its products to retailers, such as 3M, there have been so many people trying to buy masks directly from the Prestige factory in suburban Fort Worth that the company has had to lock all its doors. Whether or not face masks will protect people from disease, sometimes it helps just to have the illusion of security...
...this spring, a London fringe theater put on a sellout production of Saturday Night, about young Brooklynites gambling on the 1929 stock market, which Sondheim penned when he was 24 and saw performed on stage first in 1997. "I take it as an encouraging sign that the shows are worth looking at a second time," Sondheim says. "Most musicals, you look at them a second time, they're not as good as they were the first time." His own endure, he believes, because "I write with better librettists. They're better playwrights than the librettists of most musicals...
...Flip Burgers, Not Cups Congratulations to Steven Purugganan for breaking the world record at a totally useless endeavor, sport stacking [April 27]. I'm sure he feels that $30 for a set of cups, timer and mat are well worth the price. I only hope that when he grows up he will find more sensible ways to spend his valuable time. Neil Bresnahan, Poing, Germany...
...from animals to people, quick action can contain it--but only if we're looking. "Tens of millions for surveillance could save us the hundreds of billions it would cost to deal with a pandemic," says Peter Daszak, president of the Wildlife Trust. "An ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure...
...irrational, desperate attempt to avoid studying for your final—you may be feeling kind of down. You don’t recognize any of the terms on your study guide because you haven’t gone to lecture since the midterm. A semester’s worth of books, in pristine condition, tower around you in tall, menacing stacks. There are less than 24 hours until your exam begins and you realize—as the nonchalance of reading period crashes and burns around you—that you have learned absolutely nothing all term...