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August 27, 2013 •
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Views: 1722
BY MAYA AVERBUCH Before I left for Argentina, my parents joked that I would meet some “nice” boy at a milonga and never come back. I laughed and shook my head but hey, finding myself an Argentinian lover at a tango hall didn’t sound...
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August 22, 2013 •
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Views: 2674
BY PHILLIP WILKINSON Beijing’s air quality is appalling. Before I left for Beijing, many people warned me about how severe the pollution was, but I resigned them to over exaggeration. I thought it would only be a few days out of the...
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August 21, 2013 •
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Views: 1615
BY NITIKA KHAITAN It wasn’t that difficult, getting caught up in the excitement of San Fermín. Arriving in Pamplona at daybreak with a huge group of (mostly drunk) students. Seeing every single person on the streets dressed in the...
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August 16, 2013 •
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Views: 3032
BY CHRISTINA WANG The following list focuses on the things that I learned during my time in Kenya – in and out of the Honey Care office – in my first truly immersive foreign working experience. Prior to my stint in Nairobi...
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August 14, 2013 •
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Views: 2920
BY CHRISTINA WANG In May, I, along with two other Yale students, spent three weeks in Nairobi working with Honey Care Africa, a social enterprise that we were working with through a two-semester course and a fellowship provided by the...
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August 3, 2013 •
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Views: 2150
BY CAROLINE ROUSE Leashes sprawl across the pavement, and tongues wag in the Saturday afternoon heat. It seems there are more dogs than people in Parque México. “Why does everyone bring their dogs to this park?” I ask a boy as I...
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August 3, 2013 •
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Views: 1979
BY AMELIA EARNEST What makes a school, a school? Is it bricks, books, and toilets? Laboratories and a hot lunch? Or can a teacher— lecturing outside, under a tree, without a blackboard or chalk—be a school, too? In South Africa, these...
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July 31, 2013 •
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Views: 2869
BY NITIKA KHAITAN I wouldn’t mind my love story starting here. Inside one of Serra’s massive creations – giant planks of wood arranged in curves and spirals. The first sculpture, located inside a ground-floor hall of the...
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July 31, 2013 •
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Views: 1830
BY DAVID MILEWICZ The ferry ride from Wales to Dublin is three hours of the cold, dreary wetness that is the Irish Sea. I was lucky enough to have spent the last ten days traveling from Paris to Amsterdam to London, but none of those...
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July 31, 2013 •
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Views: 1688
BY AMELIA EARNEST I found Tyrone leaning against the cement pillar of an abandoned bridge. He was wearing crocs and pajama pants and was too distracted rummaging through a grocery bag of clothing to notice me. I was writing an article on...
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