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...important issues. We do not want the UC election process to devolve into a proposition-ridden ballot frenzy like in California. Opponents of the referendum argue that this issue is no different from any other campus movement, and, if allowed on the ballot, it would lead down a slippery-slope to countless other referenda...
...fraiche; roast free-range chicken, tarragon mousseline, creamed leeks and black Périgord truffle; and homemade petits fours. From the dining room it's a contented crawl to your cozy en-suite room upstairs or, if you're lodging in the sumptuous split-level cottages up the slope, it's an effortful short stroll. Higher still is the outdoor hot tub - talk about a bath with a view. Like Wordsworth's, your pockets may be a little emptier when you leave, but you'll feel completely revitalized - and rather well fed. tel: (44-1539) 431922; www.thesamling.com
...just after midnight when frog researcher Steve Richards heard a strange melodious whistle amid the patter of rain in the Papua New Guinea cloud forest. The sound swept away the Australian zoologist's exhaustion as he struggled through the thorny vines and stinging nettles covering the remote mountain slope in the Southern Highlands. "When I heard this, I knew it was going to be fantastic," he says. Switching on his tape recorder and headlamp, he moved carefully toward the sound, trying not to blunder into one of the limestone sinkholes that dot the area...
...economics students learn about demand curves, their own concentration is on an upward slope...
...needs a major overhaul—more senior faculty, modernization of the concentration tracks system, more contemporary readings—but that hasn’t happened yet, and it may never at this pace. Social Studies is on a plateau right now, maybe even heading towards a downward slope. It has become a complacent concentration—waiting for good students who flock to it. A supposed complaint from Gov is that Social Studies takes the good students away. But sooner or later, its stalled reforms will catch up with it.Moreover, don’t take Social Studies...