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...well-paying jobs in the private sector,” said IOP President Kenzie Bok ’11. “It’s also that when people think about what kind of meaningful work they could be doing, there’s been a swing back towards the public sector...
Learning Through Libraries is the brainchild of Jill A. Carlson, Eleanor B. O’Donnell, and Debra L. Gittler. Back in August, the three GSE students in international education policy envisioned a project that would help them gain teaching experience abroad—which is not provided in the GSE curriculum...
...joint in southern Virginia was poison. Clearly. I had a friend get it for me. He had to go to a place he didn't want to go to, and he said he was disappointed because the guy he bought it from sometimes cuts it with bleach. Back in my hotel room, I faced down this thing in a Sierra Mist bottle that was the most wretched bit of liquor I have ever had near my lips. It took years of happy drinking off my life. It was poison. I hadn't really considered the fact that there would...
...destroy such animals - a policy that most trainers agree with. "I would not put any animal down," says Shawna Karrasch, who now trains horses but once worked with killer whales at SeaWorld San Diego. "People are killed riding horses, but that doesn't stop us from getting back on them." She says the trainers know the dangers they face when they enter the water, fully aware that killer whales are dangerous animals. Trainers point out that entertainments like those at SeaWorld are minutely choreographed, primed with long-practiced signals and rehearsed with great care, with constant attention paid...
...life in Medellín. One recent morning, students waved white flags calling for peace - even as they mourned a 13-year-old classmate killed by a stray bullet just days before. In the afternoon, police captured 21 alleged criminal gang members who had slipped back into the paramilitary drug world after pledging to give it up. By night, around 10:30 p.m., police were hauling a dead body into their "necro-mobile" - a truck that collects bodies - and remarking how light a night it had been so far. It was only the second murder of the night...