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Accommodation, however, remains basic. Only the Banaue Hotel approaches luxury. Most restaurants close early, around 9 p.m. Travelers often prefer not to stay in noisy and modern Banaue, where in any case some of the worst terrace damage has occurred. But in outlying villages a lack of telephones means that making reservations is difficult. Still, a bed can generally be found, often in Ifugao stilt huts. At 1,200-m altitude or higher, nights can be cool. But the sight of a dawn mist rolling over 1,000 m of terraced mountainside compensates for any discomfort. Walkers can mostly manage...
...Such complications aside, the commissioner says many questions experts would like answered aren't asked: everyone would lie about issues like salaries, housing costs and property values. Getting honest answers to basic questions is hard enough. "How old are you?" a census clerk asked a middle-class woman at the door of her apartment in Hyderabad, central India. "You have no right to ask me my age," she replied, "but I'll tell you nonetheless if you must know. I'm 29." The clerk checked his list: "That's the age we have for you at the last census...
...Leverett Professor in the University Jerry R. Green, who taught Summers, said he felt that the new president's "basic economic intuition" would be invaluable in managing the university...
...quality and experience of the FAA auditors were also questioned by the airlines. One examiner did not know how to define two parts of basic airline operations; another reportedly asked what a speed brake on a jet is--a question that nearly rivals asking which end of the plane goes forward...
...Given this one-time capital commitment, and the wonders of compounded interest, members of the Cryonics Institute will painstakingly tend to your body until the as-yet-undetermined time when technological and medical advancements allow your consciousness to be restored. But how long, you ask? Basically until when we have figured out the human organism down to its enzymatic nuts and nucleic-acid bolts, and have developed microscopic wrench-wielding robots that can overhaul your ravaged body, rendering you operational once more. The price of this trip to the future can be financed through life insurance at a monthly cost...