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...roommates I had, Ali and I started the furthest apart, yet she’s the one to whom I’m closest today. I’m certain it’s because of that kitchen...

Author: By Jennifer 8. Lee | Title: About Alison | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...Minority Park, an "ethnic theme park" that actually encompasses five Dai villages (Mie Duc Hong's community is one of them), the annual tradition has strayed furthest from its tranquil origins. There, the water-splashing portion of the festival is organized in a shallow pool every day at 3:30 p.m. Cable describes the spectacle as a "large-scale wet-T-shirt contest." For $5, tourists can rent plastic basins for splashing each other and scantily-clad Dai women. "Authenticity is much less important than entertainment in China," says Cable. "Tourists don't come to see authentic rituals. They come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drought Throws Cold Water on Yunnan's Water Festival | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

FarmVille is the most popular game on Facebook--65 million unique monthly players and growing. It is also the furthest place imaginable from the seedy underbelly of the Internet. It's a hamlet where the sun always shines, crops always grow and your friends drop by to do chores accompanied by plinky guitar music. Its astonishing popularity is a testament to the potential of gaming on social networks. Social games promise the golden pork-chop combo of the addictiveness of computer games with the communality of Facebook and MySpace. And they generate some of their revenue from product come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Troubling Rise of Facebook's Top Game Company | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...family listed three schools as their top choices, with proximity as the deciding factor. But their son was assigned the public school that was “absolutely furthest away from where [they] live...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: School Assigning Process Criticized | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

...approximately 1½ to 2 hours per day to their school calendar. "We're in the early innings of proving how to extend school hours responsibly and effectively," says Chris Gabrieli, chairman of Massachusetts 2020, which helped originate the ELT idea. "But clearly, focusing on the students that are furthest behind is where it makes the most sense. Middle-class kids, they get a lot more learning time outside of school - they get tutors, they get arts programs, they get music programs, they get summer camps." (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer School: What? No More Vacations? | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

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