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...Musically, Mayer’s concert at the Avalon on Feb. 28 was a treat to any fan of his laid-back style and emotion-infused songs. However, between songs, Mayer babbled mostly incoherent phrases that left the audience staring at each other in hopeless confusion. Who was the culprit here? Fame...
This unusual off-Broadway theater piece explores the case of Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother who drowned her children by letting her car roll into a lake, then lied to police that the kids had been abducted by a black man. Joe Morton, playing the imagined culprit, and Sally Murphy, as Smith, alternately recap news reports on the crime and give voice to Eady's poetic riffs on race and stereotyping. It's sober, well-intentioned evening (with evocative music by Diedre Murray) that, unfortunately, gives short shrift to the most intriguing questions about the crime (like why Smith...
...particularly good week for DaimlerChrysler to introduce a new fuel-efficient minivan called the Natrium. It runs on a common compound called sodium borohydride. A chemical reaction inside the engine produces hydrogen to power the car's fuel cell, leaving behind not carbon dioxide (the primary culprit in global warming) but borax, a standard ingredient in many household soaps...
Warm weather is the culprit behind the birds’ unusually large and noisy presence on campus, according to Douglas Causey, senior vertebrate biologist and ornithologist at the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
Meanwhile, FBI investigators are exploring new theories of who might be behind the anthrax terror. One idea: the culprit had collected the spores a while ago but did not send them until pushed over the edge, perhaps by the events of Sept. 11. "Did somebody close to him get killed in the World Trade Center, in the Pentagon or on one of the planes?" asks an investigator. Still, that does not explain Ottilie Lundgren...