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...voluntourism projects involve hard work. The Mandarin Oriental in Miami, for instance, offers a two-night package in which guests spend a morning removing invasive plants and assisting with recycling programs in Everglades National Park. The Fairmont Mission Inn and Spa in Sonoma, Calif., recently invited guests to help fix up a hiking trail...
...many strip malls, and we aren’t the friendliest people in the world. Before New Jersey went to the polls to elect a governor a couple weeks ago, a whole new smear made its way through political circles: that New Jersey is impossibly corrupt and that the fix is in for the Democrats. As with most conservative voter-fraud scares, this charge had more to do with race-baiting and delegitimizing potentially unfavorable election results than with securing the sanctity of the voting booth...
Hayward said he joined the UC knowing exactly what he wanted—change for the campus. “I never ran for the Undergraduate Council to figure out what I wanted to do. I had something that I wanted to fix and I thought that the UC would be the best way to achieve that solution,” he recalled. Hayward is a Currier House resident, and his most notable accomplishments for the UC have been bringing AT&T cell phone reception and ATMs to the Quad. The future he envisions...
Friends pestering you about ‘BBM’ing during dinner? Hiding in the bathroom to check your e-mail? Get your fix without turning into that...
...TNC’s eight “Last Great Places” in the world. Climate change is an issue so large that addressing it will entail broad behavioral changes—this, in turn, requires a new environmental consciousness. We cannot flip a switch and fix climate change, as it remains too pervasive for easy solutions. Only by considering the environmental impacts associated with all of our actions can we to truly address this global crisis...