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...draw for tourists is the camaraderie. "You're meeting kindred spirits," says Adam Yates, 25, an advertising sales executive in Los Angeles, who in June went horseback riding and hiking in a national park during his Globe Aware trip to clear trails and teach English in Costa Rica. And companies are eager to tap into the growing number of itinerant Samaritans like Yates. With leading market-research firm Euromonitor International touting this niche's growth potential, particularly among single travelers, Voluntourism.org's newsletter now boasts nearly 1,900 trade subscribers, up from a mere 30 in March 2005. Lonely Planet...
...18th bell will take the place of one hanging in the Business School's Baker Library. To make sure that future Sunday melodies on Mt. Auburn Street are on key, the agreement outlining the bell exchange calls for an endowment for cultural exchange and for musical training to teach future Lowell residents how to ring them...
...history classes that fail to even mention this brief, but real, violent insurgency do their students a disservice by painting the story of resistance in artificial hues of patience and temperance. If we are to understand the U.S. in the 1960s and ‘70s, we must not teach Martin Luther King, Jr. without mention of the Black Panthers; we should not invoke Woodstock without noting the Weathermen. To do so is to offer a two-dimensional picture that conforms to an imagined trajectory of continuous progress rather than the more complicated—and more interesting?...
...some reason, the Harvard Summer School deans thought it would be a good idea to put me in charge of 12 adult students. Not high school kids who I might actually be able to teach, or even like-minded college kids who could relate to my time at Harvard. I, a naïve, 20-year-old with little life experience and even less of an authoritative presence, am a proctor for people 25 years old and older...
...afraid to get help. "The healthy entrepreneurs are ones who have come from large organizations where people are delegated responsibilities," says Newton. Buchinsky had 20 years of marketing experience before she started Little Racquets, and has hired two college students whom she pays $10 an hour to help teach her growing class load. Schandel found an assistant at nearby Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles whom she pays $17 an hour...