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...addition, the Council unanimously passed abill calling on the Committee on UndergraduateEducation (CUE) to continue listing the names ofhighly rated Teaching Fellows in the CUE guide.CUE is considering abandoning this listing for thecollective, course-wide ratings...
...sort of resurrection has occurred. Counterintuitive as it may seem in an age when technology has either trumped belief or become its new focus, a fascination with the shroud seems to have not only survived but also flourished. It can be tracked on the World Wide Web, from the official archdiocese site to the home page of the Turin fire brigade (which saved the relic during a fire last April). It can be discussed at the Centre International d'Etudes sur le Linceul de Turin in Paris, the Collegamento pro Sindone in Rome (sindon is the Latin word for shroud...
...beat that bogey, he concedes, he can't simply offer a wide array of financial products. Customers won't buy them purely on convenience. The failure of financial "supermarkets" at American Express and Sears proved that in the '80s and today the number of small community-oriented banks is growing in towns where mergers have wiped out local institutions, leaving corporate branches and higher fees in their wake. "You have to be a low-cost provider," Weill emphasizes...
...animals' behavior is not so much altered as stage-managed. To the visitor, that lion and lioness sunbathing on Pride Rock look close enough...well, close enough to eat you. But they are separated from the tram by an unseen gulch too wide for the beasts to straddle. The savanna where they roam was once drab cow pasture, but every weed and rut has been meticulously contoured and art-directed to resemble an African plain. Disney's Imagineers did a convincing makeover. When Franklin Sonn, the South African ambassador to the U.S., saw the place last month, he said, "This...
...festooned with fake bark and 103,000 artificial leaves, each attached by hand--into which 325 creatures have been artfully carved. When the family breaks up to go exploring, you'll be tempted to say, "Meet you at the Tree of Life," but the thing is so wide (170 ft. around) that visitors could circle it for ages without finding one another. The downside: you can easily get lost in Animal Kingdom. The thrilling up side: so can your imagination...