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...Broadway producers, summer is a nervous time. After the Tony awards are announced in early June, the winners bathe in the box office spoils of victory, while the losers pray that a sufficient number of out-of-towners will drop by. This year, many of the hangers-on won?t be hanging around. ?Aida? closes next week, followed by ?After the Fall? and ?The Boy from Oz? (in two weeks) and ?Wonderful Town? (five weeks). At least the spouses of prominent Republicans will be able to catch these shows. Two others didn?t wait for possible G.O.P. spillage. Last weekend...
...recent media screening of Somersault, which opens in Australia on Sept. 16 ahead of a worldwide release, you could have heard a pin drop. In Shortland's beautifully atmospheric coming- of-age drama set in the New South Wales snowfields town of Jindabyne, emotions fluctuate as wildly as teenage hormones, but for audiences the most consistent is astonishment. Hushed tones have followed Somersault since it was invited to screen in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes in May. "It was thrilling, yeah, it was cool," Tom Schutzinger, of Sydney band Decoder Ring, who composed the film's haunting score...
...pitchers mound. But the sport's officials might not join the celebration. Softball has an America problem - Team USA hasn't lost in a year, and since only four countries (Australia, Japan, this year's bronze medallist, and China) are true competitors, the International Olympics Committee has threatened to drop the sport, though it's safe for Beijing in 2008. U.S. players don't understand the concerns. "I can't imagine being good at something as a bad thing," says catcher Stacey Nuveman, who also homered on Monday. "If that's the case, shame on the world. In many sports...
...future of this spectacular species may depend on such experiments. Last fall animal conservationists were caught catnapping when a new survey revealed a sharp and unexpected drop in Africa's lion population. While the cat-conservation world was worried about the fate of Asia's endangered tigers, lions--considered vulnerable but not endangered--were quietly slipping toward oblivion. Ten years ago, the species was thought to number as many as 100,000. But the new appraisal, made public last September and published in the journal Oryx in January by Hans Bauer of Leiden University and Sarel van der Merwe...
Cell phones can be fussy travelers. Most U.S. models don't work abroad. And while it's getting easier to rent cell phones--many foreign airports have rental counters where you can pick up a phone when you arrive and drop it off when you leave--the fees can get steep. If you travel internationally more than seven days a year, it might be worth buying a Mobal GSM World Phone. The Nokia 3410 model phone costs just $49 when purchased online, and can be used in 125 foreign countries as far flung as Sweden, New Zealand and Afghanistan. Calls...