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Most audio tours can put you to sleep on your feet with their bored-sounding narrators and long lists of dry facts. By contrast, Soundwalk CDs-a hip series of audio walking tours-are like movies you can stroll through. The Soundwalk brand features cinematic sound effects, cool music and colorful insights from neighborhood locals. Since 2002, Soundwalk has produced nine 50-min. audio-tour CDs, including ones for the St. Germain des Prés district in Paris and discs that explore areas in New York City, including Chinatown and the meat-packing district. Says Stephan Crasneanscki, Soundwalk...
...liberal” as a substitute for a four-letter word. Specifically, college students reject the Bush administration’s divisive social agenda. About 60 percent of those surveyed said they do not believe religious values should play an important role in government and (in striking contrast to their parents) close to the same number support gay marriage. Every generation discards another prejudice and ours is no different. Despite the prejudiced and divisive “defense of marriage” arguments, we cling to the idea of an America free of prejudice. And right-wing Republicans should remember...
...Democratic Party has connected with college students across this nation, and for all the right reasons. Sixty-six percent of college students said they believe issues are most important in choosing a leader, in contrast to 52 percent of all voters, a figure which includes their supposedly more mature parents. We care and we will vote Democratic. The 2004 election will be the most important one of our young lives. It is often said that there are few swing voters; the only swing factor is whether they vote or not. If this is the case, college students could...
...contrast, we almost have to shed our national character to fit in with Americans. Many I have spoken to have asked me about India, and I am only too happy to talk about it then—but my “Indianness” only seems interesting up to a point. Each conversation lacks genuine curiosity, a desire to learn about things people don’t already know something about. Once I no longer fit into the framework of “Indian,” my nationality isn’t interesting anymore. (It?...
...during the three-week ground phase of the Iraqi war. The book concludes with a list of 16 journalists (out of 2700) known to have died in Iraq between March 22 and July 6, 2003—13 of them during the earlier three-week period, in contrast with 135 coalition soldiers (out of 250,000) killed in that initial phase...