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...Americans used to target golf on manicured greens, this links-style course is a different sport--more blustery St. Andrews than pristine Augusta. It's also a superintendent's dream: tough fescue grass makes up 94% of this Pacific Northwest terrain, requiring half the water and half the work of traditional courses. "I can't get over how few pesticides and fertilizers we need," says David Wienecke, Chambers Bay course superintendent. "We have the same standard of quality for 30% to 40% less cost...
...only way to thwart the bacteria, say public-health officials, is to curb the use of antibiotics. That's not likely to happen, with antibacterial hand sanitizers now in handy pocket packs and few folks willing to tough out a throat or ear infection without pharmaceutical help. The more the bugs come into contact with such agents, the faster bacteria find ways to mutate around them...
There's plenty of both in this rat-out-of-sewer story, which hits U.S. theaters June 29. For Remy (brightly voiced by comedian Patton Oswalt) is your basic outsider. Even with his family, he felt like a connoisseur among food philistines. They are tough and oafish, satisfied with garbage; he's a devotee of the late, famed chef Gusteau (Brad Garrett) and his mantra, "Anyone can cook." Having lost track of his teeming brood, he arrives at Gusteau's old restaurant, now run by the conniving Skinner (Ian Holm). But Remy's culinary imagination, put into effect by Linguini...
...Molecular and Cellular Biology Robert A. Lue and his colleagues is designed to engage the broadest number of students in the sciences and to give students high quality sections and lots of faculty support, helping them not only to succeed, but to like science. The strategy of making tough courses more student-friendly is clearly working: One third of this year’s freshmen took introductory chemistry or biology...
...TOUGH JOB?...