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...urination: Much funnier than defecation.RR: Do you think other Broadway musicals would benefit from the inclusion of pee?BG: Probably. There actually is evidence that “Les Mis” had an extensive pee plotline that was cut in early workshops.RR: What about “Phantom of the O-pee-ra?”BG: Hmm, I think there are definite possibilities.RR: “Seventeen Seven-pee Six?”BG: Yeah! I don’t know, what else?RR: “Hairspray?”BG: Ew.Anna C. Smith...
...first Rolls-Royce, BMW opted to resurrect the Phantom - a big saloon limousine that all but begs to be chauffeur-driven. That means targeting the very rich, whose legions around the world are growing fast. Rolls-Royce now wants to increase its market share while still remaining at the price pinnacle. It's introducing in 2008 a hardtop coupe version of the Phantom and launching a smaller, as-yet-unnamed saloon...
Last year Rolls-Royce sold 805 Phantoms, its main model, a slight increase over the 796 sold the year before. Revenues were also up - the company won't say by how much - largely because of the newly introduced, extended-wheelbase Phantom that has a base price of $403,000, or $63,000 more than the standard version. Garel Rhys, emeritus professor of automotive economics at Cardiff Business School, applauds the company's performance since its acquisition by BMW: "You couldn't expect much better." And the company's future looks shinier than a well-buffed fender. In July, it rolled...
...culturally acceptable in China, he adds. That helps explain why China is now Rolls' third largest and fastest-growing market, accounting for 10% of sales. (The U.S. still accounts for 45%.) It was a Beijing property developer who last year paid a record $2.3 million for a superstretch Phantom...
...spiritual awakening (and with crackpots). But, today, with new advances in neurology, scientists are better able than ever to locate the physical roots of these bizarre perceptions of self. For example, neurologists have studied amputees who can feel sensation where their missing limbs used to be; researchers think this phantom limb phenomenon has to do with rewiring in the brain's somatosensory cortex. And, in the lab, researchers have been able to make people feel that fake rubber hands are attached to their own bodies. (This was done simply enough, by touching the participants' real hands while having them watch...