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At 66, Margaret Amundson is no stranger to adventure, having raced dragon boats in China's Hunan province and explored the Tikal ruins of Guatemala. When she cast about in 1997 for a school to improve her Spanish, the Michigan nurse looked first to Ecuador, explaining, "I was fascinated by...
Most of the language schools are in the pre-Columbian city of Quito, although a score have opened in Cuenca, a mountain community 35 minutes by air to the south. Nearly half the language students are more than 40 years old, with as many from Europe as the U.S. They...
The Italian footage offers the view of a tourist meandering through a foreign landscape, happening upon scenes and subjects. Agnes shot pure observational footage in Italy, never developing any particular characters or a specific narrative, but focusing on the spontaneity of situations. In one scene she shoots an intimate moment...
The world will celebrate United Nations Day tomorrow. The Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, will release a brief note expressing cautious pride at the state of humanity while warning us about unforeseen challenges in the future. From Argentina to Harvard to Zimbabwe, ceremonies will express the sentiments and thoughts of age...
Re your story on Zachary/Aurora Lipscomb, the boy who is being raised as a girl [BEHAVIOR, Sept. 25]: the diagnosis of "gender-identity disorder" seems to have been based mostly on his fashion preferences. Why not a more detailed report on this subject? You could put together a wonderful article...