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...handedly distributes condoms in brothels across the country to slow the progression of AIDS, making condom balloons along the way. The film solicited both tears and laughter from the audience. It also contributed to a central point made throughout the night—that the public is unable to connect to a global health crisis, such as AIDS, when death counts are merely printed in a newspaper or are reported on the evening news. “It is important to show human faces, the structures behind global health,” said panelist David Kohn, global health fellow...
...staggering departure from the Core’s ethos. It does not attempt to create intellectual breadth by introducing students to major disciplinary “modes of inquiry,” as the Core supposedly does now. Rather, the new general education curriculum strives “to connect in an explicit way what students learn at Harvard to life beyond Harvard,” focusing on buckets of subject matter rather than on disciplinary approaches to academic problems. In other words, instead of imparting knowledge to make students better educated in the broadest sense, general education will impart...
...Even more amazing, the Left is starting to get it. Progressive politics is remembering its own religious history and recovering the language of faith. Democrats are learning to connect issues with values and are now engaging with the faith community. They are running more candidates who have been emboldened to come out of the closet as believers themselves. Meanwhile, many Republicans have had it with the Religious Right. Both sides are asking how to connect faith and values with politics. People know now that God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat, and we are all learning that religion should...
Residents of Chengdu, glued to the Internet and TV shows like Friends, are striving to connect with the outside world more than ever before, in fashion trends, food and lifestyles. Starbucks is importing its coffee-education strategy to persuade customers to splurge on a cappuccino. (A grande latte in Chengdu costs about $3.30, a huge sum in a city where locals typically earn less than $7 a day.) Starbucks has seven outlets in Chengdu (more than Peoria...
...report also advocates an initiative in “activity-based learning” that would connect academic work with students’ activities outside of class...