Word: summer
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...you’ve been holding out for the day that “Superbad” is remade as a melodrama, your day has finally come. Greg Mottola, who directed the 2007 hit summer comedy about two virgin high school seniors getting drunk and looking to get laid, doesn’t exhibit much originality as the writer/director of “Adventureland,” the sentimental tale of a virgin college graduate getting drunk, stoned, and (surprise) trying to get laid. “Adventureland” does boast some funny characters and a killer soundtrack...
Over 500 students looking to study and work abroad this summer received notification Tuesday that they had joined the inaugural group of undergraduates to be awarded David Rockefeller International Experience grants. The grants, administered though the Office of International Programs, are the fruit of a $100 million donation from David Rockefeller ’36, made specifically to fund “significant” international projects. The determination of significance is a task left by the University to the OIP, which assesses how well student proposals adhere to standards for cultural immersion, faculty consultation, and curricular integration. According...
...Data Center say older, thicker sea ice, which once made up 30% to 40% of Arctic sea ice and is less prone to melting, makes up only 9.8% of this year's shrunken ice spread--the lowest level ever. The rest is thinner and more vulnerable to warmer summer temperatures. Researchers estimate that 80% of Arctic ice may melt over the next 30 years and eventually disappear altogether...
...crop has been harvested, the moment when many rural Afghans trade their ploughs for rifles and "fighting season" commences, a term that Admiral Mullen doesn't like - there were Taliban attacks through the winter - but which will be all too apparent from the expected surge in U.S. casualties this summer...
...warm summer's day in mid-January, South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress, held a rally in East London on the country's southern coast to launch its campaign for re-election. Inside the city's stadium, in a pen between the stage and a sea of supporters in the ANC colors of yellow, black and green, stood the party's VIPs. Many of the men wore Gucci and the women Prada, but mixed in with them were 60 or so people, of both sexes, in combat fatigues whose camo caps identified them as veterans of Umkhonto...