Word: everydayness
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...attending the three-day course, held monthly at the cozy medieval Lickleyhead Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, it can feel like they are, quite literally, learning to walk all over again. Everyday situations such as eating dinner become a minefield of possible faux pas. But within an hour Mather has them properly scooping their soup ("Away from yourself, so as not to splash the tie") and daintily adding salt on the side, rather than dousing the entire dish ("Do you think you're in a trucker's caf?...
...actually change the day-to-day lives of most undergrads.“I can’t say whether his resignation was the right thing or not,” Kevin J. Madden ’08 says. “Either way, it does not affect my everyday life here, and I haven’t lost sleep over the issue.” Most Harvard students, it seems, have more important things to worry about than who’s running the university.“I don’t really think [Summers] has much...
...your sense of wonder and is considering setting up shop in North America, Japan and India. For the men attending the three-day course, held monthly at the cozy medieval Lickleyhead Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, it can feel like they are, quite literally, learning to walk all over again. Everyday situations such as eating dinner become a minefield of possible faux pas. But within an hour Mather has them properly scooping their soup ("Away from yourself, so as not to splash the tie") and daintily adding salt on the side, rather than dousing the entire dish ("Do you think...
...Panarelli, the lack of technology in Tanzania was both an obstacle and a learning experience. While grateful for the lack of modernization which helped her place more value on material comfort, by the end, she missed the convenience of hot water and electricity. In Datar’s everyday life in India, she came into contact with many people in heartbreaking situations: orphans searching for their parents after the storm, pregnant women unable to locate the rest of their families. Through these experiences, Datar adopted a new set of values. “I realized that my entire life...
...Africa has no shortage of candidates to compete for triage: an estimated 6,600 Africans die of AIDS every day, 3,000 die of malaria, 24,000 of hunger and poverty. As long as bird flu primarily remains a threat to birds, it just doesn't compare with these everyday scourges. Even South Africa, the nation best equipped to respond to bird flu, faces "a lot of other health issues" competing for resources, says Dr. Lucille Blumberg, head of the epidemiology and outbreak unit at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases. Referring to AIDS, she notes: "We already have...