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From that moment of first exposure, she was pretty much Africa bound. In the summer of 2004, she went to Ghana with the American Field Service. She returned in the summer of 2008 to set up a Youth Center for Peace in rural Sierra Leone. In between the two projects, specifically to help forward her Africa interests, she chose Harvard—where she is now an African and African American Studies concentrator pursuing a secondary in Chemistry...

Author: By Alexander J. Ratner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Most Interesting Seniors: Elizabeth S. Nowak | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...insurgency's effect on education has been devastating. The Naxalite movement has been agitating for revolution in India's long-neglected rural interior since 1967, and sees any government building as an emblem of the state it seeks to overthrow. Naxal attacks usually occur at night, when improvised explosive devices, known as "can bombs," are set off inside the schools. Human Rights Watch researchers visited a school in Dwarika, a village in Jharkhand where no classes have been taught since a can bomb explosion severely damaged the building in November 2008. The wooden doors were shattered, and the walls cracked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Insurgency Threatening India's Schools | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

...year-old roofer and writer Joseph Jenkins has been advocating that we flush our toilets down the drain and put a bucket in the bathroom instead. When a bucket in one of his five bathrooms is full, he empties it in the compost pile in his backyard in rural Pennsylvania. Eventually he takes the resulting soil and spreads it over his vegetable garden as fertilizer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Humanure: Goodbye, Toilets. Hello, Extreme Composting | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

According to Sirota, the quartet used the rural residency as a springboard to perform in competitions, and ended up building a reputation and concert repertoire by playing in renowned venues like New York City’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center...

Author: By Daniel K. Lakhdhir, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Chiara String Quartet to Hit the Bar This Thursday | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

That's a problem. The ordination of a family member was once regarded as a moment of great prestige in Ireland, especially in rural areas. As recently as 1990, more than 80% of Irish people said they attended Mass at least once a week. But the country's relationship with the church began to change dramatically in the mid-1990s. When Ireland's economy took off, disaffection replaced devotion among young people. The priest sex-abuse scandals didn't help. Criticism over the handling of the case of Father Brendan Smyth - a priest who sexually abused children for more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Ireland Is Running Out of Priests | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

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