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...most exhilarating, thrilling and uplifting experiences you can have. And almost anyone can do it. You don't have to be a world-class athlete: physical conditioning is less important than caution and alertness. Patience helps, too. Before you can venture solo, you will need to undergo at least two to three days of rigorous training on the ground and in the air; you can also opt to just fly in tandem with a certified instructor. In Switzerland, where I do most of my gliding, expect to pay roughly $450 for three days of training and about $150 for flights...
...cells donated by the same women. They then used tiny bursts of electricity to fuse together the donor material and egg. Nourished in dishes, 30 of the hybrid eggs developed into blastocysts--balls of hundreds of cells that represent one of the earliest stages of fetal development. When couples undergo in-vitro fertilization, a blastocyst successfully implanted in the womb has a very good chance of becoming a baby...
...They are also being press-ganged into something else: national service. Last year, the regime ordered civil servants to undergo a month of military training. Teaching a restive, resentful population how to fight seems a tactical blunder, but trainees are only given sticks, not rifles, and I hear that those with 15,000 kyat (about $17) can buy themselves out. The Burmese military is stronger than ever?nearly 40% of the national budget goes to the armed forces, making them the second largest in Southeast Asia after Vietnam's?but also more paranoid than ever. The state-run media...
It’s hardly very surprising that as first-years, international students feel more comfortable with each other. In general, we have to undergo a more radical adjustment process, and the only people who can truly appreciate this are other internationals. Be it learning, quickly enough, that faucets don’t work the way you’d like them to, or coping with a new education system, the adjustment is a process that brings us together. It is because we are different that we share this experience...
...when your man is untrue? You cut the sucker off and find someone new.” If only Julia Stiles’ Paige had honored Kim’s fine words, in the new film The Prince and Me, she wouldn’t have to undergo the central trial of deciding whether to become the Queen of Denmark or pursue her ambition of becoming a Doctor in Third World Countries...