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That goal came on the kind of play that only Botterill can make with consistency. As Canadian defenseman Geraldine Heaney took a high slap shot from the point, Botterill rose her stick to eye-level and redirected the puck accurately down through the legs of Swedish goaltender Annica Ahlen...
...report by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences has decried the growing trend of GRADE INFLATION at U.S. universities. In 1969, 7% of undergraduate grades were A's; by 1993, 26% were A's. At Harvard University, the proportion of A's rose from 22% in 1966 to 46% in 1996. WHY THE RISE? During Vietnam, the report says, professors helped failing undergrads stay in school to avoid the draft. In the 1980s, the problem worsened when students were invited to evaluate professors. THE CONSEQUENCES: Employers now view grades as less crucial in hiring, and rely more on other factors...
...economic recovery anymore: the unspoken question these days is whether some seismic collapse is on the near horizon. Lifetime employment, a pillar of the Japanese miracle, has been supplanted by the specter of lifetime underemployment for today's twentysomethings and brutally early retirement for the salarymen who rose out of that rubble. A lot of Japanese are shaking their heads and muttering, "Times are bad, but ..." and the sentence goes unfinished. No one can find a consoling conclusion...
...Grand Hotels: La Tour Rose, for the rooms decorated by the city's best silk manufacturers, 22 rue du Boef; the Villa Florentine, in a former convent, 25 Montée StBarthélémy. is an appealing jumble of small shops and restaurants tucked into Italianate pink and ocher buildings that bear witness to Lyons' 15th and 16th century wealth. The first stock market in France opened here in 1506, and with royal patronage the city became the silk-weaving capital of Europe. The cobbled streets of Vieux Lyons are connected by closed alleys called traboules. Originally just...
...where the three Laverrière sisters maintain a 40-year family tradition. There's updated fare at the Boeuf d'Argent, Fleur de Sel and Paul Bocuse's three brasseries, Le Nord, L'Est and Le Sud. Splurge for haute cuisine at La Tour Rose or la Cour des Loges...