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Last summer ODN sent 20 undergraduates from various colleges to America's impoverished Appalachia region where they worked for public service groups. Backed by $50,000 from the Ford Foundation, ODN paired students with grassroots groups in the central Appalachian states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. The summer internship program was aimed at getting students out of offices and into the field, according to Shubham Chaudhuri '87-'88, a member of the organization...
Backed by $50,000 from the Ford Foundation, ODN paired students with grass roots groups in the central Appalachian states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia...
...Marie Cirillo of the Appalachian CommunityDevelopment organization in Clairfield, Tenn.,said the Harvard students adapt well to theconditions. "Sometimes when you are [upper class]you know how to be down to earth," she said...
Although the mission had a ferocious code name, "Operation Blast Furnace," it was apparently carried out under unwritten rules similar to those observed when federal revenue agents chased down Appalachian bootleggers: the etiquette dictated that no one on either side would really shoot to kill. U.S. troops, though armed with M-16 rifles, were under orders not to fire unless fired upon. Besides, the splash of unwanted publicity removed the surprise, ensuring that most of the big drug traffickers would be out of the country before the forces arrived. Said Bolivian Ambassador to the U.S. Fernando Illanes: "With...
Theme parks? No: dream parks. Fish never looked more adorably anthropomorphic than they do performing at the three Sea World parks in Orlando, San Diego, and Aurora, Ohio. Appalachian cabins never gleamed so spiffily as at Dolly Parton's new Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. Country music rarely sounded so all-fired wholesome as it does at Nashville's Opryland. No city zoo ever boasted rides like the Congo River Rapids, the Stanleyville Falls flume or the vertigo-inducing Scorpion--all to be found at Busch Gardens in Tampa. Early Christians never found accommodations as plush as the ones...