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...local clinic and gave scores of young girls lessons in the basics of engineering. The chance to temper classroom learning in the heat of the real world is enough to draw many pupils to the group. But an increasing number of students, like Beggs, believe EWB will shape their professional future. "For our generation of engineers coming out of school, we won't just go the usual route of client work and consulting," says Beggs. "We're looking to get out there and make a difference on the ground...
...settled. Now we have to do something about global warming. From Dec. 3 to 14 on the island of Bali, environmental ministers will meet to try to hash out the start of a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. The world will be represented, but the shape of any deal will be decided by a few major carbon emitters...
...that Wong has been above some of that in the past. But his recent work strikes boldly into new territory. Tilting the Plates emphasizes the musicality of poetry rather more than his previous collections, while taking as its core a love story between two shape-shifting Hindu deities. Like those beings, the poet also enjoys inhabiting different avatars. At literary festivals from Adelaide to Edinburgh, Wong, a trained opera singer, has been known to "invoke Whitney Houston," belting out renditions of I Will Always Love You that leave stunned fellow authors wondering how they are going to follow...
...finally I got tired of my ignorance, and I felt ignoble standing up and teaching a sequence when I didn’t know why it had the rhyme scheme it had, or why it had the shape it did,” she said...
...recognized Thain at a Business School reunion in 2005. Leahy said Thain, a squash enthusiast, frequently bought fruits and vegetables and was mindful of his health during his days as a student. “He was the kind of guy who stayed in shape in every aspect of his life,” Leahy said. One day, Thain accompanied his classmates who were going out to grab burgers. At one point, Leahy recalled, he turned to his friends and said, “‘Why are you guys eating that stuff? That stuff?...