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...Smith, started two years ago, but are expected to get a boost when director Anthony Minghella's television series based on the fictional detective eventually airs. On the first tour, travelers visit the traditional village of Mochudi, Ramotswe's ancestral home. A school-turned-museum provides local history and background to Ramotswe's childhood world. Then, after lunch - chicken or beef, rice, maize pap and salads - at a local restaurant, it's on to the spot where McCall Smith met the woman who inspired his feisty heroine. Back in Gaborone, fans can see some of the Loh and Behold Avant...
...proposal would mark a major departure from the current system in which residential proctors—many of whom have no academic background in the natural sciences—assume the bulk of advising responsibilities for freshmen...
...sense that future generations will find same-sex marriage less controversial—which polls have tended to support—hovers in the background among supporters, while they also predict short-term fluctuations...
...theme of security but on peace. They produced a bumper sticker--ONLY SHARON CAN BRING PEACE (it kind of rhymes in Hebrew)--and TV ads with soft music showed Sharon strolling the fields on his farm and hugging his granddaughter. There were only a few references to the security background that, Adler believed, established Sharon as the best man to face off against the Palestinian leader at the time, Yasser Arafat. Suddenly the "unelectable" hard-line general had turned into a campaigner the Israeli media dubbed Grandpa Sharon. He won easily...
...eaten by other microbes, is a deliberate homage to Pac-Man. Later, after your amphibious creatures have acquired enough limbs to drag themselves from the ocean, they find one another on land and decide to mate--and a sexy, smooth jazz riff starts playing in the background. Millions of game years after that, you will find their descendants zipping across interstellar space in absurd 1950s-style UFOs...