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The Perks Of ‘Being’ — Culture Club I REALLY HATED it when my friends drove back home for long weekends. Every time it happened, it was a pressing reminder that I only got to go home twice a year. On one such weekend, the kind that’s too short to fly anywhere but too long to stay put, I moped around the empty campus, conversing cautiously with the handful of other international students that had been left behind. “Where are you from?” I tentatively asked each of them. Whatever their answer, they always seemed to reply with a kind of certainty that I had lost. I associated “home” with finding myself, just like I had connected boarding school with my intellectual enlightenment. Nope. As I sat in our family kitchen, speaking to my grandmother in my now-broken Chinese, I started crying. Here I was, in my kitchen, stuck in that limbo between two disparate cultures. “Stop.” In her crumpled hands, she held a pork bun, a delicacy where I’m from. She brandished the other half of the bun in my face.

The Lawrenceville School: It's All about Camaraderie for this Rower “Success is so much more rewarding when you get to share it.” This is the mantra that Geena Fram’14 lives by. She values this philosophy in every aspect of her life at Lawrenceville, especially as a member of the School's successful girls' crew team. And with this philosophy, Fram has committed to row for Brown University next fall. Fram is ready to take all that she has learnt over her years at Lawrenceville further as she becomes a member of the crew team at Brown University in the fall of 2014. Fram tried out for novice crew as a Second Former at Lawrenceville. Fram took the sport to the next level by training and working with local teams, and started competing and getting accolades at many events, like the Senior U-23 lightweight 4+ and the senior U-23 light 2- . Fram’s best competition recently was at the C.R.A.S.H. Her favorite part of rowing for Lawrenceville is the team, which is a close group of really dedicated and hard working girls, and of course the amazing coaching staff.

Lawrentians Attribute Voting Decisions to Winning Candidate’s “Sick Flow” | The Lawrence In another flagrant and shameless display of superficiality and gross neglect for the wellbeing of our campus community, over 50% of voters backing each candidate have admitted to basing their decisions largely – often exclusively – on the candidates’ hair. Despite the relative simplicity of this approach, administrators have expressed hopes that this new voting pattern will not become an ongoing trend in school elections. At the same time, many students defend their hair-based choices as easier for both voters and candidates. Like most of the administration’s rhetoric, arguments against hair-based voting have thus far ranged from apathetic to not compelling. “We knew it would come to this eventually,” said one administrator with a sigh, “I don’t think it’s right, but I certainly don’t plan to do anything substantial about it.” Despite some apathy, many administrators have expressed plans to take initiative to make change for the better. Print

A Lonely Quest for Facts on Genetically Modified Crops KONA, Hawaii — From the moment the bill to ban on the island of Hawaii was introduced in May 2013, it garnered more vocal support than any the County Council here had ever considered, even the perennially popular bids to decriminalize marijuana. Public hearings were dominated by recitations of the ills often attributed to genetically modified organisms, or G.M.O.s: cancer in rats, a rise in childhood allergies, out-of-control superweeds, genetic contamination, overuse of , the disappearance of butterflies and bees. To see the full article, subscribe here. Another Council member favored razing every genetically modified papaya tree on the island. But under Ms. Wille’s bill, the modified papaya, known as the Rainbow, was grandfathered in, as long as farmers registered with the county and paid a $100 annual fee. “You’re exempted,” Mr. Even so, Mr. Many of the island’s papaya farmers, descendants of immigrants who came to work on sugar plantations, have links to the Philippines, as does Mr.

What Happened On Easter Island — A New (Even Scarier) Scenario : Krulwich Wonders... We all know the story, or think we do. Let me tell it the old way, then the new way. See which worries you most. Robert Krulwich/NPR First version: Easter Island is a small 63-square-mile patch of land — more than a thousand miles from the next inhabited spot in the Pacific Ocean. These settlers were farmers, practicing slash-and-burn agriculture, so they burned down woods, opened spaces, and began to multiply. As Jared Diamond tells it in his best-selling book, Collapse, Easter Island is the "clearest example of a society that destroyed itself by overexploiting its own resources." When Captain James Cook visited there in 1774, his crew counted roughly 700 islanders (from an earlier population of thousands), living marginal lives, their canoes reduced to patched fragments of driftwood. And that has become the lesson of Easter Island — that we don't dare abuse the plants and animals around us, because if we do, we will, all of us, go down together. A Story Of Success? Success? I wonder.

IMDB Top 250 Movies of All Time The top 250 movies of all time as voted by IMDb users. This list reflects the list in mid-2013. It changes over time, so we will release updated versions each year. This list is currently the most popular list on listchallenges.com, so take the challenge and then share your score on Facebook to see if you are the biggest movie buff of all your friends! 65,243 users · 345,792 views Required scores: 1, 56, 81, 105, 136 How many have you seen? The Shawshank Redemption (1994) The Godfather (1972) The Godfather, Part II (1974) Pulp Fiction (1994) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly The Dark Knight (2008) 12 Angry Men (1957) Schindler's List (1993) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Fight Club (1999) Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) The Fellowship Of The Ring One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Inception (2010) Goodfellas (1990) Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) Seven Samurai (1954) Forrest Gump (1994) The Matrix (1999) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Dr.

9 Things Extremely Successful People Do After Work 'Have No Regrets' --Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group"The best advice I ever received? Simple: Have no regrets. Who gave me the advice? A Killer In Your Fridge ~ Sweet Poison…A MUST READ | Rhonda Gessner In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain. By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription medications. She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance, etc., in her oldest daughter’s name, and made sure that her younger children were to be taken care of. She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to Florida (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd. On March 19, I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she said they didn’t find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS. I recalled an article a friend of mine e-mailed to me and I asked my sister if she drank diet soda? I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda! Well, she called me, and said her doctor was amazed! Yes! Dr. Dr.