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...such varied careers as winemaker, raceway manager, master gardener, innkeeper, rancher, chocolatier, cheesemaker, fishing-and-hunting outfitter or brewmaster. But these aren't dainty tours. The jobs can be hard work. Kurth matches up vacationers to work alongside mentors who are experts in the field. "It's hands-on real-world experience," he says. "If you want to be a horse trainer, you are there cleaning out the stalls. If you want to try out cheesemaking, you are going to be up at dawn milking the cows." The average trip lasts a weekend and costs between...
...member Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). “Departments were finding themselves with millions and millions of dollars to budget, and no one had to say ‘no’ to anything. It’s a little bit more real-world around here now, and all the schools and departments are finding ways to deal with that...
...Latin class you took freshman year may lack real-world usefulness, but researchers think graduates may pick up a different kind of skill in college: stress management. A study in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior suggests that highly educated adults handle daily stress better than their less educated counterparts. Researchers interviewed more than 1,000 adults over eight days and found that although college grads experienced a greater number of stressful events (on 44% of days--compared with 30% for those who didn't finish high school), they were less affected by them and reported fewer health complaints...
...These characters represent the better angels in life,” he said. While these characters are Washington insiders, their attempts to find workable solutions to real-world problems make them widely relatable—and supposedly, unpartisan—though the seemingly universal democratic nature of the show reflects that in many ways the Bartlet administration is a wish fulfillment for the Clinton administration...
Believers too, especially in the university setting, must also do a better job of deciding how much of their religion is premised on historical assumptions and how much on pure faith. Religion based on blame and accusations that purport to be truthful have real-world consequences. No one should be expected to bear those consequences without seeking to have the accusations tested by the tools of the academy. Yet many resist such testing, regarding it as disrespectful of religious beliefs. TV commentators Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly have labeled criticism of the historical accuracy of the Gibson...