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Find yourself tapping your toes to background tunes while you shop? Don't think retailers haven't noticed. Catering to customers' musical tastes, retailers from Au Bon Pain to Pottery Barn to Polo Ralph Lauren are putting out their own CDs and cassettes. Starbucks' Blending the Blues sold some 50,000 CDs in two months, and five classical recordings for Victoria's Secret have sold more than 1 million copies each. The big buyers are baby boomers turned off by music stores. Maybe Virgin and Tower ought to offer cafe lattes and lingerie...
Music. Flight. Racism. The tales in Ralph Ellison's posthumous collection of short fiction, Flying Home and Other Stories (173 pages; Random House; $23) deal with a variety of issues, but certain concerns pop up repeatedly, variations on compelling melodies. Characters in different stories burst into song; birds and airplanes are seen as metaphors for freedom; and white racism is a fanged, fearsome threat...
...Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded Harvard and MIT a five-year, $20 million grant to establish a center geared toward applying nanotechnology to cancer research. The MIT-Harvard Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE) will be one of seven centers across the nation, the NCI announced on Oct. 3. Ralph Weissleder, a professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and director of the Center for Molecular Imaging Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Robert Langer, an Institute Professor in MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering, will head the new center. “We?...
Even Mercedes' German rivals, while eager to exploit the sales opportunity, are rooting for a modest recovery. "In the end it's also a German brand," says Ralph Weyler, the board member responsible for sales and marketing at Audi. "Generally, it prompts the discussion, Are the Japanese better than the Germans? We're all thrown into the same...
Complicating matters is Victor Quartermaine (voiced by Ralph Fiennes), an effete Elmer Fudd-type, whose predilection for applying firearms to rabbits presents a sadistic alternative to the humane methods of Anti-Pesto. Quartermaine also presents Wallace with an altogether unexpected challenge: for the affections of town aristocrat Lady Tottington (Helena Bonham Carter...