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That's why the designers are teeing up new strategies. They're making the most of every patch of greensward, revamping older courses and shifting their practices to booming markets overseas. With new course construction lagging in the U.S., the hottest trend in golf architecture is the restoration of classics built by greats like Donald Ross. "We've seen a shift from new construction to remodeling in the past five years, and I think it will continue to grow," says Greg Muirhead, senior designer at Rees Jones Inc., another leading firm...
...Impossible movies trade in explosions and vertiginous high-wire feats, the brilliantly implausible TV version used charm and DIY ingenuity. Greg Morris and Peter Graves, both center, and the Impossible Missions Force capture international drug smugglers, weapons dealers and corrupt government officials, often with little more than an eye patch, a lady, a drill and lots of nerve...
...Lacking departmental status, the committee cannot make independent faculty appointments to fill spaces vacated by departing professors—making it difficult to patch up the holes. With Orsi gone, the committee will be left with only one professor specializing in American religion...
...trees on the edge of Calais' beach is a haven - though, he hopes, a temporary one. Squatting on a weathered crate under plastic sheeting, he says: "Welcome. This is my home." If the British government has its way, the young Afghan's home will remain right here - on a patch of scrubland overlooking the English Channel. But Khodadadi has his heart set 34 km across the water in England, where, he says, his brother works in a Birmingham coffee shop and has vowed to find him a job. That his entry and his job will almost certainly be illegal doesn...
...determined to address as many people as possible during a recent week-long stay. Hours before the Flowers Bay talk, which had been canceled because the organizers could not find a proper venue, he found Mrs. Warner, a wizened elderly resident, who offered up her front lawn - a patch of windswept dirt - for the event. Fried managed to borrow several plastic chairs from the Sea Breeze Bar across the street. A single lightbulb hooked onto a long electrical cord and suspended from an old wooden ladder was rigged up as a spotlight as Fried addressed a small group of local...