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There are two Facebook groups dedicated to drinking out of unconventional containers, “The Duck” and “Cone Funnel.” These group members either fill a plastic duck with beer and drink out of the duck’s bill or use a traffic cone as a makeshift beer bong. At The Game, a plastic megaphone will make a good replacement. After you’re tanked, you’re conveniently ready to cheer—as long as it’s before half-time...
...part vodka 1 part carrot juice Tabasco sauce to fill...
...used to hearing about the financial aid that industrialized countries provide developing nations. So it's a bit of a jolt to realize how often poor countries end up subsidizing rich ones. Case in point: the accelerating brain drain out of Africa of highly skilled medical personnel to fill higher-paying positions in Europe and North America. A report in 2004 found that more than 5,300 doctors who attended medical schools in sub-Saharan Africa--almost entirely at public expense--now practice in the U.S. (An additional 3,500 or so are working in Britain.) An editorial in last...
...freshman, there were maybe three or four aerobics classes a day at the MAC,” she said. “Group exercise wasn’t a big deal. Now, we have an indoor cycling room, and seven or eight classes a day, classes fill up. There is huge demand.” According to Murdock, Harvard now offers 20 different classes such as yoga, pilates, and interval training that meet 47 times a week. Murdock also said all the instructors are nationally certified. Certification requirements vary—yoga instructors spend 600 hours training, while other instructors...
...nonprofits that are rethinking and retooling volunteerism. Civic Ventures, which sets up new programs to be run by existing nonprofits, is another. Some recent start-ups have carved out their own social-action niches and enlist their own recruits. Aaron Hurst, for example, founded Taproot in 2001 to fill a void he perceived for business professionals who wanted to make a civic contribution. "Five years ago," he says, "volunteer assignments were nearly all direct service: soup kitchens, tutoring kids, stuffing envelopes. Nonprofits were not focused on people contributing their skills...