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That helps explain why, even in a season of thinner wallets, the $7.5 billion-a-year greeting-card industry is holding up pretty well, according to the Greeting Card Association. "Card sending seems to remain relatively strong even during difficult economic times," says spokeswoman Barbara Miller, who notes the association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holiday Cards for the Recession-Bummed | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

This is impressive for someone who seems so likely to be continents away in her future. Nowak was first hooked by the pull of Africa when she was a young child and her father brought home a National Geographic CD of African music. Growing up in East Aurora, a small...

Author: By Alexander J. Ratner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Most Interesting Seniors: Elizabeth S. Nowak | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

From that moment of first exposure, she was pretty much Africa bound. In the summer of 2004, she went to Ghana with the American Field Service. She returned in the summer of 2008 to set up a Youth Center for Peace in rural Sierra Leone. In between the two projects...

Author: By Alexander J. Ratner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Most Interesting Seniors: Elizabeth S. Nowak | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

As a team, the class of ’09 notched up 52 wins, two Ivy League Championships and appearances in the postseason in each of their four years. Akpan played a major role in this success, scoring 12 of the team’s 32 goals this season.

Author: By Mark J. Chiusano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Most Interesting Seniors 2010: Andre U. Akpan | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

“He’s always that guy who walks into a party and immediately it’s amped up, or who’ll drop everything for an entire afternoon to help you switch your concentration,” David F. Boswell ’10...

Author: By Nora A. Tufano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Most Interesting seniors 2010: Nworah B. Ayogu | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

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