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...with a shopkeeper who now invites me in for chai. I've spent hours teaching in the primary schools, laughing as our students yell "semen" in Swahili at the top of their lungs while we teach about HIV transmission. I've walked around town wearing a paper hat and cape, spitting memorized Swahili phrases through a megaphone to encourage people to get tested for HIV, I’ve tried to barter with women selling maize at the market, telling them in my broken Swahili that I'll mind their stands while they go get tested...
...Thirst gives the vampire genre a new king, or Count, and he wears a cassock instead of a cape. Father Sang-hyun (Korean superstar Song Kang-ho) is a very caring Catholic priest, who gives last rites to terminally ill patients at the local hospital. He is also a serious flagellant, whipping his thighs in mortification to suppress sexual urges. He has a Christ-like desire to save the world through suffering, and that vocation leads him into a medical experiment with dire effects: everyone else who's undergone it has died. (See TIME's photos: 90 years of vampires...
Today's interns are not limited to summer jobs at their local businesses. Some programs provide dorm housing in cities like New York and Washington (or even Cape Town or Paris), allowing students from around the country to work for the nation's biggest companies (although not necessarily with a bigger paycheck). Many popular cities even have Facebook groups devoted to providing social outings and networking opportunities for the thousands of interns who descend each summer...
...best ways to see Bermuda is by bicycle - though mopeds are the preferred method of transportation here, we recommend renting a nonmotorized two-wheeler, which is a lot safer. Even better, this tiny country of 21 square miles - one-third the size of Cape Cod - has 22 miles of bike paths, on which mopeds are not allowed. The Bermuda Railway Trail follows an old rail bed and traverses the entire string of eight islands that make up the inhabited parts of Bermuda. Cyclists on the path are never out of sight of the islands' clear waters, craggy bluffs and white...
...song in his honor by the local reggae star, Blakk Rasta. "In a dis ya time a black American president a great sign," read the song's lyrics. "Too long dem disrespect blacks and Africans combined." After the speech, Obama, his wife and children took helicopters out to the Cape Coast Castle, which for centuries served as a major Portuguese depot for slaves bound to America and the Caribbean. "I think it was particularly important for Malia and Sasha, who are growing up in such a blessed way, to be reminded that history can take such cruel turns," the president...