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...Older student publications have also been looking to new media as a way of expanding the type of content they include. The Harvard Advocate, the oldest continuously published college literary magazine in the country, recently began putting together a DVD insert to be distributed with their next quarterly issue. “We want to facilitate the publication of media that students are working hard on and producing in really great and creative ways but that never otherwise had a chance to circulate on a larger scale across campus or even within the Harvard community,” says Thalassa...
...hundred millions, while the much more intimate Twilight, directed by Catherine Hardwicke from Melissa Rosenberg's script, has a low-medium budget (less than $40 million) and an artless indie vibe. But just as J.K. Rowling cannily fed tween readers' innocent lust for adventure, so Meyer smites their slightly older sisters with the adventure of innocent lust. And when the teen witches and wizards of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth film in the series, vacated the prime slot of the weekend before Thanksgiving for a July 2009 opening, the vampires of Twilight moved in. It sounds...
...American Cancer Society claims, as many as 16.5 million people participated in the Smokeout, with a million dropping the habit for good. The campaign was directed in particular at young people; antismoking activists said it was harder to keep teenagers from picking up the habit than to get older people to drop it. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in 1980 21% of high school students were habitual puffers. Over the years, the Cancer Society has enlisted celebrities and health officials to promote the Smokeout campaign - everyone from Dallas star and ex-smoker Larry Hagman...
...Such idealism drives recruits for the government-run Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV), which since 1965 has dispatched more than 30,000 people to do good in 70-plus countries. Today, the bulk of volunteers are women or older Japanese who are searching for meaning in their postretirement lives. Most contribute in fields that seem typically Japanese: planting stronger strains of rice, running environmental-training programs, teaching high school math and science. Chiyoko Ichishima, 33, helps female villagers near the Ugandan capital of Kampala build a local craft trade. "When Ugandans think of Japan, they immediately think of cars...
...older guys yelled at,” Ajayi jokes. “They’re yelling at Sobic, ‘You got 90 pounds on this kid. Why’s he making a tackle? He should be on his back.’ It’s fun. It’s always...