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UPDATED: 1:45 A.M. Jocelyn G. Karlan '12, a Harvard student who had been tutoring children in Ecuador for nearly six weeks and was reported missing Sunday morning during a hike in the Andes mountains, was found by a helicopter and rescued Monday evening, her mother said in an interview with The Crimson. "They're all a bit beaten up, dehydrated and exhausted," she said. "Jocey had some scrapes but nothing that required a hospital visit...she's back in the hostel...
...Karlan, one of three missing students and the only Harvard student in the group, had set out with a group of roughly a dozen hikers on Sunday to climb Imbabura, an inactive volcano and tourist attraction in northern Ecuador, her mother said. The group enjoyed lunch on the mountain after reaching the summit late Sunday morning but then split up on the way down. Karlan and her companions reportedly got lost in the rainforest and were forced to scale down waterfalls using roots and sleep in dried riverbeds before they were able to continue their trek down the mountain...
...shopping list in advance, then keep to it, says certified credit counselor Alberta Gibbs. Whenever you want to get anything expensive--maybe $100 is your cutoff--don't do it right away. Give yourself a 24- or 48-hour cooling-off period, says Yale University behavioral economist Dean Karlan. If you still want the shoes--or the video game or the wineglasses--a day or two later, then allow yourself to head to the store...
...team into a club team requires several players to take on administrative duties, including fundraising, scheduling games, buying equipment, hiring coaches, and communicating with the athletic department to book facilities for practices. “Personally I’ve enjoyed club better,” said Jocelyn G. Karlan ’12, treasurer of the women’s club soccer team, which voluntarily became a club team this year with encouragement from the athletic department. “I feel a lot more freedom as a club team. There’s a challenge but we have...
...truly want to make better choices," explains Yale economist Dean Karlan. He's a co-founder of stickK.com, where users make binding "commitment contracts" to forfeit money to friends or charities - or even "anti-charities" they despise - if they fail to quit smoking, lose weight or meet other goals they set for themselves. "But we need help to get us there...