Leave your soul at the door, grab a bottle of whiskey, and watch as the Unbound Edition Players present their entire performance of “Maidenform” from outside, their sad little noses pressed against the window.

Those, says a friend who is a top executive at a major American food processing company, are the primal tastes that the human tongue craves.  And it’s pretty much what is marketed and sold to Americans, including children. 

Break out your specimen collection cups and toast the Unbound Edition Players as they present “The New Girl.”

When asked how demand was allowed to outstrip supply, Western oil companies unanimously say that they didn't see it coming. Unlike the oil companies, however, U.S. cable and telephone companies clearly see the growing demand for more bandwidth from the Internet backbone to the last mile. But rather than investing to meet the projected demand, they are instead pleading poverty and spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt about a pending supply crisis.

Begrudgingly, the Unbound Edition Players lumber across the stage to present “Three Sundays.” That clunking sound you just heard is the prop guy bringing in an artificial respirator to try to breathe some life into this corpse.

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With all eyes focused on China for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, many of the country’s struggles – human rights, pollution, censorship – have taken center stage. Another issue the country has dealt with – respect for intellectual property – remains a problem for a nation that is trying to play catch-up with the rest of the modern world. Recently, China revised its laws to address this issue, and even implemented educational programs to raise awareness of intellectual property rights. A U.S. intellectual property attorney, however, says that's not enough.