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...tours, which have been personally tested by McCall 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...
When boxers, wrestlers and Taekwondo contestants at the 2004 Athens Olympics were randomly assigned either red or blue uniforms, researchers found that red won more bouts. The authors of the study, published in Nature, speculated that the color might boost the testosterone of those wearing it or suppress that of their opponents--or both...
...best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of books by Zimbabwe-born Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith, and are run by local safari company Africa Insight (www.africainsight.com). The tours, which have been personally tested by McCall 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...
...flagged classrooms in which students’ exams evinced unusual strings of identical answers in the middle of the test. The researchers found that some teachers were actually altering their students’ tests—erasing wrong answers and filling in the correct bubbles themselves—to boost scores. The study resulted in six teachers being fired and three principals being strongly reprimanded. As students prepare for final exams, let them be forewarned: with an economist like Levitt on your case, any monkey business in your blue-books will get you caught...
Sinopec is currently involved in the construction of a $65.5 million pipeline that will carry oil from the Melut Basin in the south of the country to Port Sudan, allowing the regime to boost its petroleum exports substantially...