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Global Volunteers is one of the oldest nonsectarian organizations to offer short-term "volunteer vacations." Kenny and Jackie Slutsky booked a two-week family trip to Carnitas, a small village in Costa Rica, where their team of 14 volunteers worked alongside a team of 14 locals to build a town recreation center. The work was physically demanding, but the whole family agrees that it's been their best vacation. "It's very rewarding to see something rise out of nothing," says Kenny, "and it was wonderful to see our kids be so nurturing to the local children--and be nurtured...
...Britney Spears has the flu. And her sneezes are sending shock waves across France - and beyond. They're feeling them at Jive Records in New York City, that's for sure. Executives at Spears' label must be watching in horror as their grand plans for the singer's whirlwind two-week European publicity tour - to promote the Nov. 17 release of her fourth album, a pulsating dance disc called In the Zone, on which she moans and groans to a more grown-up and blatantly sexual beat - shiver and cough to a halt. Spears has made only one stop...
...five drinks or more in one sitting—the standard definition of “binge drinking”—at least once over the course of two weeks. Close to 10 percent of all students drank this much on three to five occasions during a two-week period. These figures are up from a survey completed in 2000 and indicate that a substantial portion of undergraduate students abuse alcohol on a regular basis. In examining these numbers, the committee must be conscious of the varying ways students use alcohol on campus. Many students at the College...
Students with suite bathrooms are well aware of the dwindling ranks of Dorm Crew. The paucity of student employees means that Dorm Crew cannot keep pace with the prescribed two-week cleaning cycle. In fact, Harvard’s tradition of employing students to clean one another’s bathrooms is at risk. In response to declining student interest, Dorm Crew has already begun to turn over some of its cleaning duties for bathrooms in several Houses to UNICCO, the largest janitorial contractor in Boston...
...After a two-week media frenzy, Sports Illustrated’s editors announced that Plimpton’s article was a hoax...