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...everyone finds charming the idea of a spirit tax - a contribution to the village partly based on how many spirits reside on your land, and a calculation, mind you, that can only be made by the village elders. Indeed, if you're looking for a stress-free condominium with access to yacht marinas and golf courses, Phuket is the right choice - as long as you have the cash to afford it. "There's a strange situation in Phuket," says Risinee Sarikaputra, head of research for property consultant Colliers International in Thailand. "You have low-end residential units that are bought...
...Defecation. S___. This unlikely tour of the underworld of human waste grew out of the author's 2006 series on sewage for the online magazine Slate. George, an accomplished London-based writer, has inarguably hit on an important topic. As many as 2.6 billion people lack sanitation--meaning no access to a latrine, a toilet, a bucket or even a box. The health consequences are, not surprisingly, catastrophic: "A gram of feces," George writes, "can contain 10 million viruses, 1 million bacteria, 1,000 parasite cysts and 100 worm eggs." The privileged Westerner winces. Yet in an upbeat, inquisitive manner...
Resistance to open education is not the only instance of the University denying free access to its resources in part, at least, for the sake of revenue. Just take a look at the Ivy League’s Borrow Direct interlibrary loan program in which all the Ivies—except Harvard—take part, despite the fact that Harvard has the fourth largest library collection in the world. Although Harvard does participate in a type of ILL program, it usually slaps charges onto the loans...
...know too much about Ivy League schools,” she said.Now a freshman at Vassar on full scholarship, Ahmed said that Harvard might have been a possibility had it been a partner school.While Harvard’s peer schools, such as Princeton and Yale, use QuestBridge to access more low-income students, Harvard pursues socioeconomic diversity on its own. Because of such independence, Harvard may be missing out on exactly the kinds of students it is looking for.OPTING OUTStudents applying to the QuestBridge National College Match Program rank up to eight colleges and submit an application by Sept...
...year-old temple. It was built by ancient Khmers, the dominant ethnic group in Cambodia, who also constructed the famous Angkor Wat complex. Although the U.N. agency accepted Cambodia's sole claim of the site, Thailand believes that a stretch of land that is used to access the temple is rightfully its own. In 1962 the International Court of Justice ruled that the temple was in Cambodian territory, but it sidestepped the issue of the access route. For weeks in July and August, hundreds of soldiers faced off along the jungle border, occasionally taking potshots at each other, before talks...