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...politics of indoor tanning are delicate and few students publicly admit to salon membership. No one wants to seem overtly narcissistic, and a year-round tan can clash with the intellectual image. It's okay for Zonker Harris, but it's hard to connect a lucite tanning bed with, say, the head of your department...
...arithmetic, he presses for an emphasis on problem solving rather than mechanical computation. Instead of a curriculum stuffed with what he terms "ersatz social science," he argues that schools should return to conventional history, geography and civics. He also backs the idea of lengthening the school calendar, perhaps to year-round...
...half-century, with occasional interruptions, the city's drama scene has been highlighted by the Old Globe Theater. Offering mostly outdoor Shakespeare and classics, the Old Globe has grown from a summer festival into a year-round operation with three stages, a $6.4 million budget and a 1984 special Tony Award. Its success has helped spawn a lively local theater community, including the regionally acclaimed San Diego Repertory. A gap remained for those seeking new and avant-garde work, but that was filled in 1983, when the La Jolla Playhouse opened on a suburban campus of the University of California...
...small group of well-heeled football fanatics, most of them real estate moguls, took the gamble and created the U.S.F.L. The twelve-team league opened in 1983 with a new twist: it played not in the fall but in the spring and summer, thereby testing aficionados' appetite for year-round football. Over the next two years, other fat-cat fans, including New York City's Donald Trump, bought in to swell the league to 18 franchises...
Most of the facilities are open year-round, but Berkeley's Wheezles and Sneezles closes during the summer. Reason: when school is out and the weather is nice, business falls off dramatically...