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...that it serves to build support among members of the UC, but that’s not essential.”After all, outsider candidates posed a serious threat to the last two well-credentialed UC presidents. Perhaps the only way this year’s less-seasoned bunch can keep their leadership on the inside is through banding together against a common enemy. But before they can do that, of course, the contenders will have to come clean about their ambitions...
...Television in the 1960s and early '70s did not lack absurdities ... Yet of all the ridiculous TV shows of the era, two stand out for their enduring, unfathomable allure: The Brady Bunch, the sitcom about an adage-spewing stepfamily cavorting on an Astroturf lawn, and Gilligan's Island, the tale of seven mismatched castaways on an island that seemed oddly close to Hollywood. Both shows had a goofy otherworldliness painfully out of step with their tumultuous times. Both spawned fanatical cult followings and countless spin-offs. Both, amazingly, were created by the same man, Sherwood Schwartz ... [He] called Gilligan...
...Goodbye to Stale Wines? One in 10 bottles of wine is tainted?or "corked," in the oenophile's argot?making it smell musty and taste bitter. Now French scientists have come up with a kit called Dream Taste. You dip a copolymer shaped like a bunch of grapes into the wine, where it absorbs the flavor-spoiling molecules...
...enough has happened - or, rather, become visible - in Europe this year to wonder whether that truism is still accurate. Last week, I heard one of Britain's most experienced commentators describe this year's Conservative Party conference as "young and sparky." The Tories, sparky? What happened to the comatose bunch of wrinklies with as much spark as a soggy book of matches? Of course, there were plenty of them at the conference, too, but the merest hint that it might soon be fashionable to be young and conservative in Britain confirms the significance of other developments. There's the retirement...
...land to house some of Michigan Wind Energy's turbines. The money, he says, would help cover taxes and insurance on his orchards, averting the need to parcel off parts of the property to residential developers. "I'd rather see one or two towers sitting out there than a bunch of houses," says Longcore. "I want to preserve my way of life...