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Afterwards, my roommate and I went to Utila, an island off the coast of Honduras, to get our open-water dive certification. The island of Utila, known for its diving and nightlife, is frequented by dive junkies and backpackers from all over the world. At the dive hostel, we roomed with a cranberry farmer from Oregon, belted out Taylor Swift with a soldier who had just returned from Afghanistan, and strummed a guitar with a paratrooper in the Israeli army. It reminded me of my meals in Annenberg during the first few weeks of school, meeting my classmates and listening...

Author: By Meredith C. Baker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: La Vida Sencilla | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

...forget who exactly had thought the idea up, but I remember, after a brief and excited discussion, pinning a printout U.S. map to the wall, with a thin pencil line charting a bus route from East Coast to West. Going cross-country by Grey-hound, I thought, would be something: distance I could feel. More pressingly, my free moments were ticking away. Summers were starting to disappear, and in the not so distant future I’d have to get a job that, unless I became a teacher like my parents, would involve a sprinkled dribble of vacation days...

Author: By Mark J. Chiusano | Title: Shadow Steps | 2/3/2010 | See Source »

...Bedouin are a historically nomadic people who migrated to Egypt from the Arabian Peninsula centuries ago. Locked out of development projects and tourism investment along Sinai's southern coast, the long-marginalized Bedouin have often been forced to work outside the law to make a living. But over the past two years, some of the tribesmen have prospered as a result of Israel's blockade on Gaza, which has turned smuggling into the territory's economic lifeline - and also a source of weapons for militants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt's New Challenge: Sinai's Restive Bedouins | 2/3/2010 | See Source »

Remember when the Westboro Baptists paid Cambridge a visit last spring? Well, they're  back in action—only this time on the West Coast. Just as at Harvard, students at Stanford banded together yesterday to drown out the cries of the Westboro protestors denouncing gays, Jews, and just about everything else under the sun. Here are some choice photos from The Stanford Review of the event, which looked as though it succeded in uniting the Stanford community more than anything else...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Around the Ivies Plus | 1/30/2010 | See Source »

...Today's victory will be remarkable ... We expect a peaceful election and are getting ready to enjoy a better tomorrow." - After voting in Medamulana, his rural district on the southern coast, on Jan. 26 (Reuters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mahinda Rajapaksa | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

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