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...compensate for these struggles in scheduling, many athletes in the sciences resort to taking summer classes to free up time during the school year. Miller has utilized this strategy to lighten his engineering course load during season; senior hockey forward and co-captain Kirsten Kester has as well, to make space for her Molecular and Cellular Biology requirement of Organic Chemistry...
Luxury on Sale. The Art Deco Fontainebleau Miami Beach resort reopened in November after a $1 billion renovation. The hotel added an iMac to each of its 1,504 ocean-front rooms, plus a 40,000-sq.-ft. spa. Through Dec. 20, the Fontainebleau is offering special rates starting at $289 per night, which includes a $50 daily credit for use at the resort's spa, shops or 11 restaurants. From Dec. 21 to May 31, 2009, rates start at $399 per night. 4441 Collins Ave., Miami Beach...
Recipe courtesy of Executive Chef Jet Tila of Las Vegas' Wazuzu (part of Steve Wynn's Encore resort...
Spending Where It Counts Sol Kerzner is reported as having spent some $20 million on an extravaganza to open his Atlantis resort in Dubai, to which he invited the very rich and famous [Dec. 1]. Yet in his own home town of Johannesburg where, as in the rest of South Africa, over half the population is under 25 and many are AIDS orphans, this generation - and the next - faces widespread unemployment, a struggle for education in derelict and under-resourced schools, and homelessness in an environment riddled with crime. The challenge goes out to Kerzner to put an equivalent...
...least, the 52-year-old Prime Minister has ruled out military intervention, hoping the police can restore order without the government's having to resort to martial law. Professor Thanos Dokos, head of the Athens-based think tank ELIAMEP, says that "even the thought of employing the Greek army to quell the civil disturbances ... is preposterous." Beyond the historical burden the armed forces carry in Greece, Dokos says "they are neither trained nor equipped for riot control...