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...Scotland: The best small country in the world” just happens to be the ambitious catch phrase of the Scottish Executive, or the government that retains powers separate from the United Kingdom. As explained to me—and as is apparent at the official tourist website www.scotlandistheplace.com—the Scots are working to market their country to the world at large...
...woody vegetation that blankets the mountains and coastal slopes of the Western Cape of South Africa is known as fynbos - Afrikaans for "fine bush." The plants make up a good part of the Cape floral kingdom: the smallest, but richest by area, of the world's six floral kingdoms. Thanks[an error occurred while processing this directive] to the incredible variety of fynbos, the Western Cape region is almost as botanically diverse as the entire northern hemisphere. Since early 2005, Roberto de Carvalho, executive chef at Azure, a restaurant in Cape Town's Twelve Apostles Hotel and Spa, has used...
...would mean recognizing that China, not “the Bush regime,” is the international menace vis-à-vis Sudan. The name of the Middle Kingdom should be on our lips—preferably as a curse—whenever Sudan is mentioned...
...continued efforts to break through socioeconomic barriers in search of the world’s best students, Harvard is currently working to increase recruitment of students from government-run schools in the United Kingdom, according to the Undergraduate Admissions Office. Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73 said that there is a discrepancy between the number of students applying in the United Kingdom from private institutions versus public schools, called state schools, and that the majority of applicants from the United Kingdom were from private schools. With the number of applications from...
...made in the image of God; chimpanzees are not. In understanding the genome, scientists can neither add to nor take away from this truth. Spiritual realities are not the province of the natural sciences. What is truly different between human beings and even our closest cousins in the animal kingdom is the ability to reason. The great apes are not reasoning creatures, which doesn't mean they are unable to think in their way. They just aren't able to sit around and pose questions like, What makes us different...