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...tree. Evening.”Two men, dressed in tattered clothes, stand around, loitering, waiting. “Funny,” one says. “Nothing to be done.” Behind them glows an eerie light, the nighttime glare of the levee bordering the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. “How could we use the most enigmatic play of the 20th century to talk about what happened in Katrina?” video artist Paul Chan remembers asking himself on a trip to New Orleans in the fall of 2006. His answer: a staging...
...coach really tried to have me play [football] in middle school and ninth grade,” Ajayi says. “Finally, sophomore year I caved and really started playing, trying out for the team and playing some football...
Champion surfer Kelly Slater has the body (ripped), the lifestyle (jetsetting), the girls (supermodels) and now he has the world. Slater just won his ninth world title in surfing, making him both the youngest (in 1992, at age 20) and the oldest (now 36) surfing champion in history. His new book, Kelly Slater: For the Love, is a visual tour through the taut, tanned world of competitive surfing and how a young boy from Cocoa Beach, Florida rose to the top. Kelly Slater talks to TIME about surfing, his new world title and why he is always late...
...said I couldn't win again, they were doubting that I could do it at that age [33] just cause it hadn't been done. Then they said the same thing in 2006, that it would be my last. Now here I am again and I just won my ninth world title...
This month, the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) released its ninth annual report on how involved students are in both academic and extracurricular activities - which are key indicators of educational quality - at four-year schools across the country. The survey, which is funded by the nonprofit Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, provides hundreds of colleges and universities with some of the most comprehensive data available on how well they're engaging students compared to their peer institutions. The survey's main goal is to help schools figure out how to do a better job of educating college...