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...done?" his father, Chris Lappas, 40, recalls with a laugh. Before long they discovered the indoor water park's longer, steeper tunnel slides--they start atop a four-story staircase and snake in and out of the cavernous hall into a plunge pool below--and Andrew was hooked. "We proceeded to go down about 25 more times," Lappas says. "By the end of the day, the kid was toast...
Those mechanics mean the facilities cost as much as $400 per sq. ft. to build--more than double the cost of an indoor pool. But a building boom is in full swing. In 2000 there were 24 indoor-water-park hotels and resorts in the U.S., all in the Midwest; by year's end there will be more than 100, with projects under way in Texas, Arizona, Kentucky and California. Holiday Inn is converting several of its aging "Holidome" franchises into indoor-water-park hotels, while even some Super 8 motels are installing small water parks...
...certain disciplines; the report includes data showing that in the natural sciences, 25 percent of the faculty on the tenure track in the 2005-2006 academic year was female. But women represent only 8 percent of tenured professors in natural sciences, which Hammonds said is alarming considering the available pool...
...uniquely in the public eye - Princes William and Harry didn't go to Beaufort Community School - so the continuing criticisms of Eton's role in perpetuating a stratified society have an impact. The school was founded to educate "poor scholars," and while existing programs to reach beyond its pool of mostly rich white boys have scored some results, Eton doesn't mirror the diversity of modern Britain. But a school this old knows a few things about adapting to the times - so Eton is embarking on a campaign to offer more financial aid. Already 13% of boys receive help because...
...small pool creates stars within the crossword galaxy. One of these is Ellen Ripstein, a researcher for a TV game show (could it be Jeopardy?) who, after a dozen or more years in the top five at Stamford, was profiled in a front-page Wall Street Journal story in 2001, and won the tournament that year, to chants of "El-len! El-len!" The lifelong New Yorker describes herself as "a little nerd girl," but she knows her worth. "I had a boyfriend once" - once, she says - "who would sort of try to put me down. And I would...