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...raft and sail he later attempted to navigate across the Timor Sea, with the vague intention of returning to Europe. Instead, 16 days later, he washed ashore on the western Timorese island of Roti, where, in exchange for pieces of his sailing vessel, Fairweather was offered food and shelter. What nearly killed him in effect became his life raft...
...covering poodle shows. There are once-grad school bound thesis researchers reconsidering their career paths after spending an entire summer feeling useless as they worked 10 hours a week on an inconclusive experiment. There are once-dedicated volunteers who found the inner-workings of a women’s shelter, or an English school in Beijing, decidedly less romantic than it’s made out to be in the glossy brochures. And there are once-aspiring bankers now leaving the halls of Citi and Morgan with hunched backs and pasty skin, wondering if summers pissed away making love...
...decided to send his daughter to Fritsche instead of keeping her at Humboldt Park past fifth grade. "There was no comparison," he says. Fritsche "had activities after school from forensics to track--plus the quality of teaching and the tough curriculum." Middle school fans also question the impulse to shelter young adolescents. "You're not in some sort of cocoon. You need to evolve," insists Fritsche eighth-grader Ren Espinoza. And what happens when it comes time to go to high school, asks Fritsche band teacher Joyce Gardiner: "To go from a little-bitty K-8 school to a high...
...Laos; from their villages in Phetchabun province in Thailand. The Hmong, more than 300,000 of whom fled neighboring Laos when the Communists came to power in 1975, are seen as illegal immigrants by Thai authorities, who suspect them of drug trafficking. The Hmong refugees spent 36 hours without shelter, leading to the death of a 2-month-old girl; doctors say they have been instructed to stop providing medical care to the Hmong, and vendors claim to have been told to refuse to sell them food...
...Shelter,” as I affectionately call it, is replete with all the rules one would expect from a residence run by a Christian organization. After checking in, I was handed a three-page paper outlining all the building’s commandments: no alcohol, no smoking, and, most importantly, no men past the first floor of the building. Essentially, living at the Parkside is the exact opposite of living in Mather...