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Teaching Tobacco
by Rachel Brown: Imagine attending a school with the phrases “Tobacco helps your success” and “Genius comes from hard work–Tobacco helps you become talented”...
Not Just a Game
by Marissa Dearing: David Duke is a survivor. After his father’s death and a breakup with his girlfriend, Duke developed an alcohol dependency. At 23, he found...
Hitting a Wall
By John Hayashi: The first tremor came as Toshiko Kobayashi walked into the kitchen of her Tokyo apartment. Earthquakes are a fact of life in Japan, but...
Waiting for a Revolution
by Marissa Dearing: In July 2011, a fiber-optic cable from Cuba to Venezuela will become operational, offering Cuba Internet speeds up to 3,000 times faster than...
Art, Inc.
by Joy Chen: Famous for her enigmatic smile, DaVinci’s inimitable masterpiece “Mona Lisa” has been valued at over $700million. But in Dafen, China,...
Redefining Sudan
by Sarah Juster: “Secession is like a divorce. It is not a sweet idea,” said Professor Amal Fadlalla, who researches Sudanese issues at the University of Michigan....
The Yale-NUS Collaboration: A Two-Way Street of Learning
by Cathy Huang: Amy Soh is a freshman enrolled in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the National University of Singapore. Born and raised in Shenton Way, Singapore,...
An Indian Fairytale
by Abhimanyu Chandra: Chaube Pandey, a taxi driver in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP), was listening to political commentary on the radio when he remarked...