Word: abroader
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...Kenyan Mary Onyango's comment that if you can't travel overseas for treatment, "you just sit and wait for your death," prodded me to respond. A year after learning I had breast cancer, I am once again fit and healthy. Contrary to being urged to go abroad for treatment, I had surgery, chemotherapy and radiation in Nairobi, and I have nothing but praise and gratitude for every person involved in my treatment. Hettie Tooley, ELDORET, KENYA...
...Pot’s genocide in Cambodia, and there are reports that it is being used against Buddhist monks today.” For both practical and ethical reasons, the United States must stop equivocating on torture. If we wish to preserve our values and our reputation abroad, unambiguous statements are needed. Thankfully, Senate Judiciary Committee Charman Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and other prominent Democrats have vowed to stall Mukasey’s confirmation until he clearly his expresses his opposition to waterboarding. We applaud this decision and hope that our next Attorney General can improve on the dubious human...
...planned, Hatch took a leave of absence after his freshman year to go on his Mormon mission. For members of the church, a mission abroad is often seen as a rite of passage. While the team anticipated his departure, they, like Hatch, did not expect him to travel to Chile...
When I say that my family is freer than most, I mean that in a fairly literal sense. While most people use these 700 words to wax poetic about how they found themselves abroad or about how their weird family is actually normal, I cannot do the same, because I have yet to find myself, and my weird family is actually weird. While I could talk about the film canister filled with leafy greens I was given over Christmas break by an extended family member or the tears that spill out of my father’s eyes whenever...
...been known to throw one shirt in the dryer to unwrinkle it. And honestly, at home, when do I ever turn off my computer? Admittedly, energy-saving abroad is usually more an issue of affordability than it is of environmental awareness, but in America, where environmental awareness does exist, we have a responsibility to conserve. Individuals should save energy however they can and the government must do its part on a global, legislative level...