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...wishing you had mastered just a couple of phrases of the local language. Since 2005, travelers on selected flights of Singapore Airlines, Lufthansa and half a dozen other carriers have been avoiding this problem with Berlitz World Traveler courses, available on personal video screens. Now other airlines are following suit - this year, Continental, KLM and Air France began offering the onboard language-tuition program, which teaches the basics of up to 23 languages in 21 languages. So should you be from Brazil and need to brush up on your Tamil, or from Vietnam and require a few phrases of Arabic...
...state is facing lawsuits alleging that its prisons subject too many inmates, including the mentally ill, to a prisoner "warehousing" culture of unlawfully extreme isolation and deprivation, usually with little or no rehabilitation efforts to prevent recidivism. Other suits decry what one calls excessive as well as "malicious and sadistic" use of pepper spray and other chemicals to keep mentally ill prisoners under control. In many cases the sprays have burned off inmates' skin, according to the suit. "Florida prisons still need to end this kind of outrageous conduct," says Randall Berg, executive director of the Florida Justice Institute...
...inflatable couches. The grease would later decorate the shared controllers. As Brian T. Ru ’11 took a break after the first round, he said, “It’s like an adrenaline rush.” Meanwhile, a Microsoft employee, dressed in a green suit in the style of the Halo protagonist Master Chief, stood solemnly behind players and posed for pictures. “The suit is extremely heavy and hot, especially since the fan system inside stopped working,” he said. “I recommend it as a weight-loss...
...their school, program, or major. This initiative aims to eliminate the financial barriers that prevent many students with loans from pursuing these types of careers, and is the first program of its kind. Tufts should be applauded for its ingenuity and leadership, and we hope Harvard will follow suit. Non-profits are a valuable asset to society, yet a growing discrepancy between starting salaries in the public and private sectors has increasingly drawn college graduates to choose the latter. Many of these students have amassed large amounts of debt during their education and are forced into higher-paying jobs...
Eschewing his characteristic jeans and T-shirt in favor of a gray suit, Petersen touched on students’ struggles to become active decision makers “in spite of limitations from above...