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...packed humanitarian video game that lets players rack up points for air dropping food rations and surveying war-torn populations on the fictitious island of Sheylan. "The gaming market is saturated with blood and guts and gore," says Justin Roche, the game's project manager at WFP headquarters in Rome. "We've turned the concept on its head by addressing the urgency and immediacy of a real crisis situation." In its first six weeks, the game has been downloaded-for free-more than 800,000 times at food-force.com The site includes lesson plans for teachers and background info...
...talked to a lot of people who don’t go abroad because they don’t want to miss a semester of Harvard,” says Anna G. Dolganov ’05, a classics concentrator who studied abroad last spring in Rome, through a Duke University-sponsored program. “And they’re not going because they’re afraid....They’ve heard the courses are b.s. and not very challenging...
...split from the Catholic Church and go their own way. When will a new generation of Catholics refuse to tolerate the frustration they feel about church dogma that they do not follow anyway? Can they find a new Martin Luther to break with the power-hungry old men in Rome? In a new church in synch with current values, vacant pulpits could be filled by married men and by women. The "cafeteria Catholics," who choose the church teachings they wish to follow and whom the Pope disdains, would return to their pews on Sundays. Enlightened views on contraception, stem-cell...
...split from the Catholic Church and go their own way. When will a new generation of Catholics refuse to tolerate the frustration they feel about church dogma that they do not follow anyway? Can they find a new Martin Luther to break with the power-hungry old men in Rome? In a new church in synch with current values, vacant pulpits could be filled by married men and by women. The "cafeteria Catholics," who choose the church teachings they wish to follow and whom the Pope disdains, would return to their pews on Sundays. Enlightened views on contraception, stem-cell...
With the graduation of collegiate Sailor of the Year E. Cardwell Potts IV ’04 last spring and Porter’s semester-long absence in Rome, Johnson rose to skipper the A-division in fleet racing—and, at the helm of a Laser, to take second in the singlehanded national championships...