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...stunning art gallery cum restaurant next door. Dishes like shiitake mushrooms in salty lime sauce, and Burmese pork curry, hold their own against the gallery's modern art and ancient artifacts, attracting both fashionable Thais and awed but underdressed tourists. Discover this stylish sanctuary, nestled beneath the sacred peak of Doi Suthep, before more of the latter do. Visit www.baansaendoi.com for details...
...Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations ... One School at a Time Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Lost and delirious after a failed 1993 attempt on the world's second tallest peak, K2, the American mountaineer Greg Mortenson was rescued by residents of Korphe, a remote village high in the Pakistani Himalayas. Grateful for their assistance, Mortenson vowed to build the villagers a school. He returned home to San Francisco, sold everything he owned (including his precious climbing gear), and then embarked on the most arduous quest of his career. Three Cups...
...performance. Philadelphia and other districts are doing the same. Teacher merit pay, despite opposition from unions, has already been introduced in many districts and states, though no one has yet created the kind of career paths envisioned by the commission, where salaries would begin at $45,000 and peak at $110,000. In addition, universal pre-K is already a reality in Oklahoma and Georgia...
...shopping season is at its peak, and you haven’t bought the awkward people in your life gifts. All you know is that they like books. Your relationships with them are only superficial, so why not choose “by its cover...
...that’s all they need to do. As long as you’re confident in the team around you, there’s really nothing to worry about.”Whether or not Martin is worried, the Crimson will have to play at its peak next Friday at Dartmouth, which has the second highest scoring output in the ECAC. Like Harvard, which has three Olympians (Vaillancourt, Chu and Cahow) back after a year-long absence, Dartmouth has its four Olympians back.“Dartmouth’s going to be tough,” Brine...