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...1840s and '50s, it focuses on the lives of Kristina (powerfully sung here, as on the original album and on the Stockholm stage, by Helen Sjoholm) and her husband Karl-Oskar (Russell Watson, the Salford factory worker known in England as "the people's tenor"). Nearly starved by crop failures in their native Smaland, Karl-Oskar and his brother Robert (Kevin Oderkirk, who earned vigorous shouts with each of his numbers) resolve to leave the land their ancestors have farmed for a thousand years and go to America. Despite Kristina's severe reservations, that's what they do, accompanied...
...jump in a cab down to Manchester Museum, tel: (44-161) 275 2634. It has a mammal gallery, an Egyptian collection and dinosaur bones, all housed in Gothic Victorian splendor. Afterward, I'd head to the Lowry Hotel, tel: (44-161) 827 4000, just across the river in Salford for afternoon tea on the River Bar terrace. They serve pastel-colored macaroons and the best sandwiches in Manchester. In the evening, I'd have a drink at the Northern, tel: (44-161) 835 2548, a great pub, then round the day off with a meal at the Modern...
...Square featuring a pretty model and the slogan EVERYBODY BETS. PartyGaming CEO Segal says big American media groups seem less reluctant to air gaming ads than they were. "The U.S. is a clear example of prohibition not working," says Peter Collins, an expert on gaming regulation at Britain's Salford University, who advised the British government on its new gaming legislation...
...compelled to have a final heart-to-heart with four ex-girlfriends. Acclaimed Venezuelan director Moisés Kaufman is handling This Is How It Goes, (which went down well in New York City and opens at the Donmar Warehouse on May 31 before moving to Bristol and Salford) with British actor Ben Chaplin in the lead as a man who comes back to his small-town home to break up the interracial marriage of his high school crush. "I have thought that, if somebody takes it the wrong way, I could get a brick to the back...
This is the largest biological experiment in the history of the world," shouts Leif Salford, an unusually animated neurosurgeon at Lund University, in Sweden. Salford's not talking about his own work. He's talking about the 1.3 billion people around the world who regularly chat away on their mobile phones, "freely pressing radiological devices to their brains." Salford's own research involves much smaller samples - of mice, not men - but it is raising big questions about the safety of human mobile-phone use. In a paper that will be published in April by the U.S. journal of the National...