A dose of ultrasound can stop the production of sperm, according to researchers investigating a new form of contraception.

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Testicular zap ‘may stop sperm’

Raju Narisetti, a managing editor of The Washington Post, has resigned to oversee the Wall Street Journal’s digital news operations and be deputy managing editor of the paper. In three years at The Post, Narisetti helped recruit a digital news team, led efforts to merge digital and print operations and oversaw the selection and installation of a new computer content system to ease the production of online material. Read full article > >

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Post managing editor to join Wall Street Journal

The first bit of action in Septime ­Webre’s “The Great Gatsby” is the emergence of the jazz band, rising on a lift from the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater’s orchestra pit, the tuba and string bass glowing under the lights like oil lamps. It’s fitting that vocalist E. Faye Butler and the six musicians of Billy Novick’s Blue Syncopators receive such a prominent introduction, because they are the starring attraction of this production, which the Washington Ballet reprised Thursday after its February 2010 premiere. It is the music — vintage selections by Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Irving Berlin and more — that not only sets the mood for each scene but contributes to the emotional and dramatic tension, helps define the characters and distinguishes one episode from another. This is helpful because the choreography, lively and acrobatic as it is, doesn’t tell us much about the story. Read full article > >

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Washington Ballet’s “The Great Gatsby”

An electric car company backed by more than a half-billion dollars in Department of Energy loan guarantees has missed early manufacturing goals and has gradually pushed back plans for U.S. production and the creation of thousands of jobs. This week, Fisker delayed until 2013 the production of the moderately priced family car it plans to build in Delaware . It also learned that its Finnish-produced luxury model, the $96,000 Karma, which is two years late in reaching U.S. markets, failed to meet a promised energy-efficiency standard. Read full article > >

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Fisker, electric carmaker backed by $529 million U.S. loan, balks at Solyndra comparison

“Glee! Live! In Concert!” is as subtle a spectacle as its triple-exclamation-pointed title suggests. At Thursday night’s sold-out Verizon Center show, 14 actors, sans adult cast members, performed in character, alternately occupying the main stage and a smaller square island of a platform set in an ocean of audience. No song passed without a pyrotechnic display — as if, not content with the already impressive talents of the cast, the show’s producers felt the need to go over every moment of the concert with a highlighter. Almost everything about the production is a little bit ridiculous. Read full article > >

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‘Glee’ concert at Verizon Center brings out the Gleeks

The first MG car has rolled off the production line in Longbridge, marking a new era for large-scale production at the plant.

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VIDEO: New MG rolls off UK production line

The first new MG for 16 years will roll off the production line in Longbridge later, in the first large scale production there since the demise of Rover in 2005.

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Producers of a new Batman stage show say the production will not suffer from the same problems that afflicted the Broadway Spider-Man musical.

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Batman ‘not another Spider-Man’

‘The Dark Knight Rises’ in Pittsburgh It’s one of the most anticipated films of 2012, and so when there’s even the tiniest bit of news, you’ll be hearing about it. This latest bit has to do with where the production will be filming, with a quote from director Christopher Nolan confirming that Pittsburgh will play home to a good part of the film’s production this summer. Nolan told the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, “Pittsburgh is a beautiful city. We have been able to find everything we were looking for here and I am excited to spend the summer in Pittsburgh with our final installment of Batman.”

China’s quality inspection agency has shut down nearly half of the nation’s dairy producers for failing to pass inspection tests and is forcing them to clean up their production policies, according to reports from Beijing. Highly toxic and poisonous…

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China’s Toxic Dairy Industry

AMC announces that it has “officially authorized” the production of a fifth season of “Mad Men” for 2012.

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The TV Column: ‘Mad Men’ will be back in 2012 for a fifth season

As automakers scramble to ensure a reliable supply of parts from Japan, Toyota said it would restart production of Prius and Lexus hybrids next week.

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Toyota, Struggling With Part Shortages, to Restart Car Lines

Charlie Sheen is not returning to Two-and-a-Half Men. So says TMZ, citing “sources connected to the production of the show.” The gossip site says reports that CBS wanted to bring back the troubled star were untrue to begin with, since only Warner Bros…

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Grab your tissues and prepare to get your cry on X-Men fans, because Darren Aronofsky has decided not to direct The Wolverine, which was 20th Century Fox’s follow-up to X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Though Hugh Jackman is still attached – and production was set to begin real soon – Aronofsky has opted to walk away prior to production because, according to a statement he released, he does not want to be away from his family for a year during production. He says, “As I talked more about the film with my collaborators at Fox, it became clear that the production of ‘The Wolverine’ would keep me out of the country for almost a year. I was not comfortable being away from my family for that length of time. I am sad that I won’t be able to see the project… Read More Read Comments

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Darren Aronofsky Leaves ‘The Wolverine’

Grab your tissues and prepare to get your cry on X-Men fans, because Darren Aronofsky has decided not to direct The Wolverine, which was 20th Century Fox’s follow-up to X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Though Hugh Jackman is still attached – and production was set to begin real soon – Aronofsky has opted to walk away prior to production because, according to a statement he released, he does not want to be away from his family for a year during production. He says, “As I talked more about the film with my collaborators at Fox, it became clear that the production of ‘The Wolverine’ would keep me out of the country for almost a year. I was not comfortable being away from my family for that length of time. I am sad that I won’t be able to see the project… Read More Read Comments

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Darren Aronofsky Leaves ‘The Wolverine’