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...hours from platform 9? at London's King's Cross station, a cluster of students in starry robes, pointed hats and rep ties are learning how plants grow, but it's not botany; they call it "herbology." In an adjacent classroom a boy with a famous lightning-bolt scar brandishes his wand, chants "Numerus Subtracticus!" and conjures the correct answer to a math problem...
...hunt for a play-off berth for promotion to the professional English Football League. And for a place that never really existed on the map, Ebbsfleet has arrived. The club was known as Gravesend and Northfleet until May when it was renamed to match the new Eurostar station nearby which opens next week. This is handier than you might think: with MyFC members based in over 75 different countries, Eurostar is also the club sponsor. Air links are pretty good too for the 1,400 new owners based in the U.S., 475 in Australia and 400 in Norway, if they...
...counselor for new residents, Seoul Metropolitan Government Go to Lotte World, tel: (82-2) 411 2000, a giant indoor and outdoor amusement park that's not too dissimilar to Disneyland. It's only about a 20-minute subway ride from downtown Seoul - you get off at Jamshil Station - and it has plenty of great rides and things to do for children and adults alike. If you can, visit on a weekday to avoid the crowds and the long queues. After 5 p.m., admission to the park is cut from around $27 to about $23. You can still...
Pretend you’re a ratings company. Your main problem? Determining how many people are listening to a radio station in any given geographic area. This used to be done the old fashioned way, with paper diaries. Arbitron, the dominant ratings-determining company, passes out between one and four thousand paper surveys in a given market. People then judge the stations they’ve listened to recently, send their surveys back to Arbitron, and let them compile the data to send to radio stations. Stations then shell out a meager $40,000 for the complete results...
...value set on "mateship"; another, related to it, is a much paraded dislike of elitism. Mateship--essentially, male bonding--began in the harsh world of the penal settlement. It continued in the hardly less tough environment of labor that was the lot of most men in the bush: shearers, station hands, shepherds. To have a mate was to survive; to betray that mate was to be a scab, less than a man; such was the hard calculus of colonial life, and its traces are very much alive in Australia today...