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...billion Cost of the new terminal. During the first four days of operation, nearly 250 British Airways flights had to be canceled...
...British choreographer Wayne McGregor, whose credits include Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as well as groundbreaking new works for dance, theater and opera companies, is keen to throw open the doors of those upstairs rooms. "A choreographer is someone who's engaged with physical thinking," he says. "Someone who's applying the technology of the body to concepts and philosophies...
...which followed in 2005, was a meditation on the function and symbolism of the heart, performed to a choral score by British composer Sir John Tavener, himself suffering from degenerative heart disease. McGregor and the Random dancers had their own hearts scanned and he even sat in on open-heart surgery. "I fainted," he admits ruefully...
...study has found that money does indeed bring happiness—spending money on other people, that is. Authored by Harvard Business School professor Michael I. Norton and Elizabeth W. Dunn ’99, a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia, the report used a combination of real-life and laboratory data to conclude that people who give money to others—no matter how little—are happier than people who do not. “We were interested in studying happiness by seeing people’s actions rather than their circumstances...
...Devil's Peak, former freedom fighter Thobela Mpayipheli is on a vigilante revenge mission after his eight-year-old adopted son is gunned down. Is he the good guy or the bad guy? Kunzman reckons: "The relationship between criminals and the forces of the law is different. American and British crime fiction is largely about a society that is firmly in control, but which is momentarily imbalanced by an act of murder. In South Africa, that's wishful thinking...