Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Drake received $2,000 plus travel expenses from Johnson and Johnson, Retin A's manufacturer, for moderating a January 1988 press conference, as well as honoraria for discussing the product during several television appearances. The congressional report criticizes Drake for not diclosing these fees and expenses...
...spring semester voyages usually travel the southern hemisphere through Latin America, South Africa, Kenya, India, Southeast Asia and Japan. It's fall voyages usually travel the northern hemisphere through Japan, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Russia and Western Europe. Since 1963, Semester at Sea has taken more than 20,000 students around the world. Its instructional objectives have consistently been to enhance education through classroom knowledge combined with field experience by traveling the world...
...course some anal credit board member can argue that the opportunity does exist to travel the world through the Semester at Sea. But who wants to pay another university over $15,000 for one semester without getting academic credit for it, and then have to take summer classes here to make up for the summer classes to make up for the semester? About .01 percent of the population, maybe...
...addition to trying to complete course readings, write country reports and postcards, organize in-port travel and financial arrangements for the next port, attend diplomatic briefings, factory, orphanage and prison visits, welcome receptions and other course-required field work, student were trying to control their culture shock. Every aspect of our lives was challenged in each country, from our sleep habits to our cultural and historical assumptions to language, religion and social manners...
Although there were days when even Desmond Tutu was caught sleeping in class, the courses provided students with valuable pre-and post-port medical, travel, historical and cultural information on each country. There were times when the only studying done on ship was on who scored the most points in the volleyball game, but everything we did was balanced (no, there was no shuffleboard...