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...ballroom danced in Swaziland, camped with crocodiles and hippopotamuses in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, and worked as a peer mentor in a Jamaican HIV orphanage. Her interest in global health and development, which has taken her to the Chinese Center for Disease Control in the past, will bring her to the Dominican Republic and Sierra Leone this summer. For Amy T. Wu ’09, living and breathing the developing world is the only way to truly understand the “global economy.” Wu is not alone in wanting to study and work...
...healthy $11,000 in 2006. Botswana's diamond wealth has fomented no coups or conflict, and the last assassination was in the 1960s when a tribal chief's brother shot his older sibling. Population growth is under control, and the country's schools, and its green tourism in the Okavango Delta, are the envy of the continent. While Botswana has one of the world's highest HIV/AIDS rates - an estimated 25% of adults between 15 and 49 are infected - it also has an unusually progressive program to deal with the disease. The contrast with neighboring Zimbabwe could not be more...
...City, was already much talked about for the supple and intricate design proposals she exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in Manhattan and in a one-woman show last year at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. One of them is for a spa on the Okavango River Delta in Botswana. And we do mean "on"--the open-air guesthouses would float atop man-made "lily pads." Another plan is for her ingenious cross-shaped extreme-skiing facility in Alaska's Chugach Mountains, from which guests would be helicoptered to the highest slopes. "We had to come...
...Only a die-hard travel writer (which Schultz is, and one who claims descent from Mark Twain at that) could imagine that visiting all of these disparate places is remotely achievable. Nonetheless, just the notion alone is salivating?even if you will never ride an elephant in Botswana's Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta, or saunter languidly past the ruins of the ancient Guatemalan city of Antigua ("Spain's capital of all of middle America, until the epic earthquake of 1773," according to the book...
...Only a die-hard travel writer (which Schultz is - and one who claims descent from Mark Twain at that) could imagine that visiting all of these disparate places is remotely achievable. Nonetheless, just the notion alone is salivating - even if you will never ride an elephant in Botswana's Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta, or saunter languidly past the ruins of the ancient Guatemalan city of Antigua ("Spain's capital of all of middle America, until the epic earthquake of 1773," according to the book). The guide's page-long entries each include a lively explanation...