A very important book on race that can and SHOULD inspire dialogue
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PSA: Downton Abbey Exhibition
Taking you back to ye olde England
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Book Review: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Mumbai is a city of immense wealth as well as supreme poverty. Just next to the airport, around the corner from gleaming luxury hotels sits the Annawadi slum. Here, families squat on the land owned by the airport and make lives with much less than we would ever think possible. Though their homes could be…
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Monday Reads
Bruges, Belgium is a big spot for tourists. It’s also a big spot for beer. The problem is the beer trucks take up a lot of space and make a lot of noise on those streets where the tourists walk. Solution: a brewery is installing a pipeline underground to take beer from the bottling plant…
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Listening to hip hop could actually improve your mental state. Bring on the Nicki Minaj. In Indonesia, women who want to become police officers must undergo a virginity test. That means if you want to become a policewoman, you have to be degraded as someone performs the “two finger test” to determine if your hyman…
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In an effort to control the population, India has offered financial incentives for performing or undergoing sterilization. Major problem: after one doctor and his assistant performed laparoscopic tubectomies on 80 women in immediate succession, 11 have died and dozens are in critical condition. I can understand the argument for upcharging on plus sized clothing due…
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I obsessed over the Fiske Guide to Colleges when I was in high school. I’m not sure this scorecard can fully replace it (particularly without an input for test scores or GPA), but I like to see the White House taking the steps to encourage all students to go to college and to find the…
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If e-cigarettes are meant to help adults curb smoking, it seems like flavored nicotine may, indeed, be a marketing ploy for kids. Otherwise, wouldn’t we have seen cinnamon toast crunch cigarettes before now if it was something adults craved? Dowries are not legal in India, but that has not kept people from paying them or…
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A new system in development will change the way we get onto the subway. Bye bye metrocards! Coming of Age Day is a mass Japanese bar mitzvah of sorts. Sometimes I’m tempted to get out of my more traditional career path and become a personal assistant. I’ve always proudly used the Oxford comma. My fellow…
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Peaches to Apples 