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...KINDS OF CIVIC BETTERMENT have enjoyed wider approval than the regional nonprofit theater movement. But the acclaim has tended to obscure three dirty little secrets. First, many of these institutions have been afflicted with an edifice complex, caring more about glistening facilities than about what goes on inside them. Second, the regional houses have been loath to risk developing new plays and, even more, new musicals. Third, at many of them the acting is mainly mediocre. A seeming example of the first and third shortcomings is the Denver Center Theater. The four-stage complex is as impressive an array...
...treatment facilities, boot camps for young offenders, women's prisons complete with secure apartments in which children can live with their mothers. Some see in the longer mandatory sentences handed out these days a need for special accommodations in prisons for the elderly and sick who require therapy, medication, wider cell doors for wheelchairs, even Braille signs on doors...
...such overdoses. But all eight routinely drank milk from a single dairy. And when doctors tested samples of the milk, they were shocked to find that it had up to 500 times the vitamin D level marked on the label and recommended by the FDA. Worse yet, a wider study covering 13 brands of milk in five Eastern states turned up levels well below or appreciably above the suggested dosage. Infant formulas tended to be the highest, while some skim milk had no D at all. The doctors, whose report appeared in last week's New England Journal of Medicine...
...exactly been unknown that race relations were worsening; a hundred voices had said so. But not until last week did many whites and blacks realize how deep an abyss had been opening at their feet. And last week's violence is all too likely to make the gulf still wider and deeper. For blacks the acquittal, and for whites the aftermath, tended to confirm each race's worst fears and suspicions about the other...
...THEY'VE replaced Baltimore's not-so-beautiful Memorial Stadium with gorgeous Oriole Park at Camden Yards. So the seats are wider and the aisles are larger. The upper deck looks a lot like Wrigley's, with open-air fences in the back. The B&O Warehouse behind right field brings a smile to every slugger's lips; you can reach it with a 460-foot bomb. 'Nuff said. Walk in and you'll be intoxicated...