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Critics grumble that Lloyd Webber might homogenize the West End by filling it entirely with his type of catchy but bland popular musical or even with his own works, but he scoffs at those ideas as both impractical and commercially suicidal. The theaters will still present a wide mix of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All of London's His Stage | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

The problem, however, is that Illingworth is not a dean of students. He is an associate dean responsible for one segment of one part of student life. He reports to a dean who is responsible for the whole of the College and whose position makes it impractical for him to...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: The College's Missing Dean | 2/16/2000 | See Source »

The letter went mostly unnoticed for over a month until the Washington Post wrote a story about it, prompting the scorn of business groups, which said it would be too costly for small businesses. Within 48 hours of the story's appearance, OSHA recanted, saying the letter was meant to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Fuel for the Home- Office Explosion | 1/27/2000 | See Source »

It was a revelation, at least to Western eyes: multiple copies of an entire volume produced by mechanical means. True, printing from movable type had been performed in Asia, but thousands of ideograms made the widespread use of the technique impractical. Gutenberg, who apparently knew nothing of the Asian innovations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 15th Century: Johann Gutenberg (c. 1395-1468) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

11th century Movable type was developed in China by the year 1048 and the metal variety in Korea by 1403. However, it was impractical for the ideographs both used (as many as 400,000 characters). Rubbing off wood blocks and stone, practiced since the 7th century, was the preferred technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Evolving Culture | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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