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This isn’t raising the bar. It’s a diversion of attention from more serious structural failures in our education system. The final purpose of higher education is to provide an environment in which young adults explore and build according to their own plans. Though this process may be error-laden and oftentimes without a clear marketable value at its endpoint, it is a process which is crucial to personal development. The responsibility for ensuring that colleges perform as they should lies on the individual student. No administration from above can function well as a surrogate...
...notch massage at the hotel spa will help balance the body's pitta - or Ayurvedic fire element - before heated negotiations with your clients and contacts. Afterward, take the edge off the workday with aperitifs at the candlelit Liquid (which is, believe it or not, Bangalore's first outdoor bar), then head to Ista's Northern Indian-style restaurant, Zaman, for meals prepared in the Awadhi tradition - known for its slow cooking and elaborate spices. Sister property Ananda may have those mountain views, but Ista's chefs hit more than a few peaks of their...
DAMON: Like the bar scene...
...makeover of your garage? For Michael Cardenas, a restaurateur in Malibu, Calif., the bill hit $30,000. That's a steep price, you might think, to remove some junk and add some fixtures. Yet before the transformation, the place was a disaster zone: crammed with catering equipment, an antique bar and dozens of cases of wine--including bottles Cardenas would have loved to uncork, if only he could find them. "It was definitely ugly," says his wife Madoka...
...have been attended by 100,000 people. It now issues national ID cards with a computer chip that contains the owner's digital signature. That enables Estonians to gain access to an ever growing range of electronic services, by networked computers and even mobile phones. Sitting in an Irish bar in Tartu, Jagomägi flicks at his phone and accesses the information provided by the school attended by his younger son Vootele, 10. It lists Vootele's schedule, his grades and his absences. Jagomägi scrolls down and clicks on homework. "Monday," it reads. "English: Page 14, Exercises...