Theater and dance company leaders often believe the last show of the season should be familiar or fun — or maybe both — with the goal of pleasing patrons so much that they unquestionably subscribe for the upcoming season.
WASHINGTON — The Department of Energy has the legal authority to terminate the Yucca Mountain program over the protests of lawmakers who say DOE needs further permission from Congress, according to Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Who doesn’t want to be a millionaire? Maybe a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor who lives with his elderly mother in Russia – and who won $1 million for solving a problem that has stumped mathematicians for a century. Grigory Perelman can’t decide if he wants the money. “He said he would need to think about it,” said James Carlson, who telephoned Perelman with the news he had won the Millennium Prize awarded by the Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Mass.
LOS ANGELES — Chaz Bono is asking a judge to formally change his name and gender. The 41-year-old writer, activist and reality-TV star, was born a girl to Sonny Bono and Cher. He filed a petition to change his name and gender last week. Bono’s doctor filed a declaration with the court indicating he performed a gender-change operation last year. Formerly called Chastity, Bono has called the gender change “the best decision I’ve ever made.”