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...Over the past week, several colleges across the country have scrapped plans to send students to Mexico. The University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire announced it would nix a six-week summer program scheduled to start in Mexico on May 26, giving the 23 enrolled students a chance to visit Costa Rica instead; Boston's Suffolk University canceled a program slated to start in June. Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the University of Minnesota announced it was encouraging its 21 students currently studying in Mexico to return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spring-Break Legacy: Swine Flu Hits Colleges | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...many Indians, Modi is evil. They say he has transformed Gujarat, the state that produced Mohandas Gandhi, into a tautly polarized polity. In 2002, it witnessed a six-week riot, the worst in the country's history, leaving more than 1,800 people dead, mostly Muslims. Modi has refused to apologize for the massacres. He continues to be as capable of delivering fiery Hindu-nationalist speeches as he is in delivering essential public services to his people; he has has ruthlessly exploited religious divisions to attain and hang on to power. With this combination of prosperity gospel and virulent religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fiery Hindu Nationalist Who's Roiling Indian Politics | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...confront," says Cathy Tisdale, the Girl Scouts national vice president for "mission to market." So they set out to become the "premiere leadership organization for girls." Troops and badges will still exist - but girls can also choose to take "journeys" instead, opting, for instance, to make a six-week foray into the community for service, rather than meeting once a month in a church basement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Than Just Cookies: Rethinking the Girl Scouts | 11/29/2008 | See Source »

...specific measures, although school officials have constituted several review committees to review vacant and new staff positions and capital plans. CORNELL UNIVERSITY Cornell suspended all construction projects for 90 days, starting Nov. 3, and instituted a hiring pause through March 31 of next year. Finally, Cornell has begun a six-week review of operational effectiveness, financial policies and procedures. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Dartmouth’s provost has released statements outlining spending reductions of 10 percent, or $40 million, over the next two fiscal years, in addition to a hiring freeze. For this fiscal year, Dartmouth is seeking to reduce spending...

Author: By Michael Y. Sun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ivy League Universities Issue Statements Concerning Their Responses to the Economic Downturn | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...Forster and Virginia Woolf, the school promises "intelligent instruction on how to lead a fulfilled life." Physically, it's a small bookshop with a classroom in the basement, but it has the earnest feel of a book club hosted by a psychotherapist. Instruction can take the form of six-week courses on family, love, play, politics or work ($320), or can involve spending an hour with one of the school's experts ($80), including an atheist, a beekeeper and a man who escaped from a World War II detention camp. Recently, the school hosted DIY lessons on how to hang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Living at The School of Life | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

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