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...cargo boat and invited me to join her, I leapt at the chance. Davien, a native Manhattanite, was taking a sabbatical from a successful career in the entertainment industry to launch a new chapter of her life, aboard a 197-meter cargo ship. She embarked in Brooklyn and cruised halfway around the world, tracing the route her grandfather, a sea captain, followed 80 years ago. She hooked up with me in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, where I now live, and together we sailed westward from Java, across the Indian Ocean and through the Arabian Sea to Bombay...
...says Eric Hollenburg, who is one of the principle architects. “If its midnight in Boston, its 7 a.m. in Basel. We want them to be able to walk into the cyber café and strike up a conversation with another scientist halfway around the globe...
...distinctive reek of camp hangs over Drag Bingo, but it’s something that seems endemic to drag events that are staged as performances. Halfway through the bingo night, Diamond Dunhill, a female impersonator who performs at Jacques’ Cabaret in Bay Village and who also happened to win Miss Gay New England 2001, climbs on the Leverett stage and lip synchs to a house version of Cyndi Lauper’s “I Drove All Night...
Even though it has primarily afflicted people residing halfway around the globe, the impact of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus hit home for many Harvard students this week. On April 4, the University issued a “temporary moratorium” on travel to mainland China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore and Toronto—locations that have been most severely affected by the recent SARS outbreaks. As a recent follow-up to the moratorium, University officials have announced that students taking courses in affected areas will not receive Harvard credit, and may not be able...
Recently, though, my search for a career has taken on a new urgency. I am almost twenty and almost halfway through college. I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up—and I’m almost a grown...