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ROME, Italy – The poster is all over Rome: “Ci chiami sporco negro e lesbica schifosa. Ma ti offendi se ti chiamamo Italiano mafioso—You call us dirty black man and disgusting lesbian. But you are offended if we call you Italian mafioso.” A bald black man and grey-haired white women are depicted smiling and looking straight ahead. Both appear to be naked, though only their top halves are showing; they have crossed arms (a signal of strength, or perhaps a way of concealing the woman?...
...Above all, you wondered: would college life really be as cool, chill, and homoerotic as membership in the Harvard ’09 Fellas Facebook group made it seem? (Answer: Yes.)We all spent our college careers the same way: trying to record the perfect acappella cover of K-Ci and JoJo’s 1998 superhit “All my Life” to finally seduce Jessica S. Lin ’09. How tough is it to get the Fallen Angels in a recording studio? Those girls are always on the go!But these next few years...
...probably by exploiting nature, rather than protecting it. (A major nickel mine being developed near Andasibe is an ominous possibility.) "With ecotourism, the protected areas and parks are less likely to be used for strip mining," says Neel Inmadar, senior adviser on ecotourism for the green group Conservation International (CI). "You'll never stop development, but you can maintain the environment while providing economic benefit...
...Madagascar forest has survived - 90% of the country's original forest cover is gone - that I could truly fathom the risk. If environmentalism requires a revolution of consciousness, maybe that can't be done at home - even if traveling requires carbon emissions. As Russell Mittermeier, the president of CI and my ecotravel partner in Madagascar, says: "You've got to see it to save...
...committed ecotraveler, then, the trick is to find a legitimate ecotour - it's not easy to distinguish a genuinely sustainable tour outfit from one that's green only in name. Courtesy of CI, here are the five questions you should always ask your tour operator to gauge its greenness...