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Underground activities inevitably change character when thrust into the limelight. Comedy Central made remote-controlled fighting robots famous with its show Battlebots, and in doing so contributed to the rapid burnout of the sport. Snowboarders lost their counterculture mystique, and their boards are more plastered with corporate logos than your average NASCAR racer. And baseketball? Don’t even get us started. Beirut is facing the same fate. Lebanon is being slowly Westernized despite continuing political strife, and it’s character is gradually changing under the weight of French and American corporate interests. Stores from Starbucks...
...impossible to calculate a cumulative GPA for students spending part of their time under each system. Fortunately, fears that grade deflation place students’ futures at risk, in terms of graduate school admissions and job hunting, are largely unfounded, because Harvard’s spot in the limelight would make certain that any dramatic grading change, like the cap of A-grades at Princeton, would be widely publicized. With this in mind, students and educators may find that a dramatic attack on the perennial problem of grade inflation is well worth the risk...
...dirt and mystery start with Miss Dee Meaner, a spoiled has-been child star who will stoop to anything to get back into the limelight. Cookies go missing; Miss Dee starts hanging out with Indy Sykes, a suspicious dictator-look-alike; the ship gets hijacked—possibly by a great white shark—and a Private Eye gets on the job to discover what all the chaos is about...
...armada of boats throughout the season. Humpbacks are surprisingly agile for their size (the average adult is longer than 13 m and weighs about 30 tons), so expect to see lots of blowing, tail slapping and breaching (pictured). Australia's cuddly koalas and kangaroos usually hog the tourist limelight, but this is one time of the year when native wildlife just can't compete. For more information, visit herveybaytourism.com.au...
...armada of boats throughout the season. Humpbacks are surprisingly agile for their size (the average adult is longer than 13 m and weighs about 30 tons), so expect to see lots of blowing, tail slapping and breaching. Australia's cuddly koalas and kangaroos usually hog the tourist limelight, but this is one time of the year when native wildlife just can't compete. For more information, visit herveybaytourism.com.au...