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...program for its attempt to cultivate a more well-rounded college experience. Despite the heavy stigma that gap years carry at Harvard, where many students feel pressure to finish college and enter the job market, a culture encouraging gap years is healthy. Gap years, particularly those that involve international travel, enable students to gain global perspectives that both enrich and inform their subsequent personal, academic, and extracurricular endeavors. For many matriculating students, a year spent in non-academic pursuits offers much needed respite from the stresses and rigors of high school. By providing constructive opportunities to relax and reflect...
...think you know climate change. You've seen An Inconvenient Truth. You've noticed the changing and warming weather patterns in your part of the world. You're beginning to suffer from acute ecoanxiety. But to really see global warming in action, you'd need to travel to the Arctic, where climate change is already kicking into high gear. Temperatures are increasing faster in the far north than they are in the more temperate zones in the world, and recent studies indicate that the North Pole could be underwater in the summer in less than 10 years. But seeing...
Markets have a way of meeting needs. Already, "reproductive tourists" travel to countries where looser rules might increase their odds of success. Could patients create as many embryos as they like and pick the best, as long as they line up couples to adopt the rest--or sell the extras to offset the costs? This is no wild plan; in the U.K. researchers offer women reduced rates on fertility treatment if they agree to donate half their harvested eggs for research...
...Havana. In the video, an angry student peppers a visibly flummoxed Alarcón with the kind of questions that usually get Cubans tossed into jail: Why does a worker have to toil two or three days just to be able to buy a toothbrush? Why can't Cubans freely travel abroad...
...Name one book that you consider a must read for all adults. -Patty Allen, Washington D.C.The Bible. There is a way of thinking and compassion that I get out of it-a way of thinking that is not here right now. It's something I travel with and keep on my nightstand. I am not an overly religious person, though, just spiritual...