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...difficulty for Elizabeth Ryznar ’10 lies in finding inspiration. Ryznar is the founding president of Harvard College Stories for Orphans (HCSO), a student group that writes and illustrates personalized storybooks for children in international orphanages. With this, she’s built an outlet for aspiring writers, one that mitigates the difficulty of finding a starting point. “A lot of people enjoy the organization because the inspiration is built in, to a point,” she says. “Every child has a book that’s written personally...
...tree stands "sugar bushes" and hung buckets under the drilled holes. Every day or two - depending on how fast the sap was running out of the trees - the farmers would empty out the buckets into larger containers or tanks and haul the watery substance to a "sugar house" usually built in the woods. Here's where the magic happened...
...water over a wood fire - what they were left with was brown sweet syrup. Some sugar makers heated the sap further, turning it into crystallized sugar. Over time, the industry evolved enough that companies from Quebec to Vermont produced ready-made "evaporators," essentially giant frying pans with fire boxes built underneath...
...home of the Kentucky Derby, America's greatest horse race, the city of Louisville has developed a tradition of hospitality ranging from white-glove genteel for the mint-julep set to gutbucket honky-tonk for the infield mob. Yet the city's most intriguing hotel has built its off-track winning formula around a thoroughbred collection of contemporary art. (See 10 things to do in New York City...
...seizing land on which to build new homes. These often ramshackle settlements are scattered on barren land throughout Simferopol, immediately recognizable by their tiny stone houses on what look like permanent building sites. "We're not asking for favors," says Rustem Khalilov, who lives in Yani Qirim, a settlement built in Simferopol on land seized in 2006 and which now houses 80 families. "We just want somewhere to live. If we had been given land, we wouldn't need to seize it." The settlers of Yani Qirim say they had actually reached an agreement with the Ministry of Defense, which...