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Seeds of Peace, founded in 1993, holds three two-week peace camps each summer on a lake in Maine. U.S. campers, ages 14 to 17, join with teens from such places as the Middle East, India, Pakistan, Greece and Turkey to canoe, swim and play sports together. The campers also spend time in sessions in which they learn how to listen to one another with respect and compassion. Says New Yorker Liz Carlin, 17, who attended Seeds twice as a camper and returns this year as a volunteer: "Now I try to get as many perspectives as possible about current...
...Navy's Golden Thirteen, the first group of African Americans to become active-duty line officers in the U.S. Navy; in Centerville, Ohio. Despite the Navy's usual 25% attrition rate, Cooper and his fellow officers all passed training. "We decided early...we were going to either sink or swim together," he said...
Cromwell, who has been a member of either the varsity swim team or the varsity water polo all four years at Harvard, says he joined ROTC as a first-year for the scholarship money but soon realized what he calls the “peripheral bonuses,” such as working at the Pentagon over the summer...
Gerard Gabrielse Some students are so dazzled by their classmates’ ability, creativity and capacity for hard work that they lose sight of their own intelligence and potential. It is hazardous to forget that Harvard is an unusual pond in which mostly big student fish swim. I try to plant the image of the smaller and usual ponds to which they will someday return, and in which they will rediscover that they too are big fish...
...GOING OUT IN THAT?" Apparently you're never too young to show off what your mama gave you. This summer Burberry is offering its first really itsy-bitsy bikini. It's $70, not including swim lessons...