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Local Voices From Around the Globe: Will I be American or will I be Thai today?
When would someone have the ability to present themselves as a native of a country of their own choosing? When they’ve lived eight months as an exchange student, of course!
Continued ... - Second host family makes Hungary feel like home
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Having 'the conversation' about gambling
Youth are exposed to gambling now more than ever before, and they think it is normal.
Continued ... - Local voices from around the globe: Toyko captures my heart
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'Geezering: an act of doing stuff with another old guy
It is a bright sunny day. I should be out back in our woodlot geezering with my neighbor John.
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Ship Sunk in China
Died, in Cherry-Valley on the 13th inst. [March] Mr. CHRISTOPHER ALLEN, aged 27, of the prevailing epidemic.
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Local Voices From Around the Globe: Making another life in a new land
I’ve been in Belgium for almost seven months now and am having the time of my life. There is always so much going on and so many amazing and interesting people to meet.
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Healthcare exposé shocking, sick
Written by Steven Brill, the article, "Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us," explains, in what we found to be rather grim detail, why the cost of medicine seems so very, very high.
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Local Voices from Around the Globe: A border crossed brings grandeur
I have crossed a border leaving Thailand. On the other side of that line I entered a new land that presented me with culture shock equal to what I'd experienced upon arrival in Thailand seven months ago.
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Local Voices From Around the Globe: 'American-themed' party actually reminded me of home
Time here in France is really flying by, just like everyone back home warned me it would before I left.
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Local Voices From Around the Globe: I can feel my time here running out
Hónap Magyarországon majdnem hat és rendben vagyok. Almost six months in Hungary and I'm OK.
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Local Voices from Around the Globe: The most modest places in Thailand are the most vibrant
As a curious exchange student always seeking adventure in Thailand's distinctive culture, I've discovered that it isn't at all hard to find colorful street life.
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Local Voice From Around the Globe: The side effects of 'string beans'
Step No. 1 to eating and enjoying meals in a foreign country: Acceptance.
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Book looks at 50 years of James Bond movies
When I was in elementary school, James Bond was all the rage. For some reason I didn't see any of the early films with Sean Connery playing the infamous 007 British spy, but my siblings and several friends certainly did.
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America and Algiers
The political situation of the United States and Algiers…may be thus summarily stated …
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Of Carolina wrens and crossbills
We will remember this year for a number of reasons, among them first-time visitors to our bird feeders. Aside from reporting data to Cornell every five days as part of the Project Feeder Watch program, I keep on close watch over all the avian activity up here on the hill.
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Growing Leaders president blogs about Cooperstown
It was bitter cold in upstate New York, but the school teachers and administrators there were warm and inviting, as two of us from Growing Leaders invested a day in Cooperstown, the home of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Back in the saddle again ...
We note, as we put pen to paper this week, that this will actually be the first column we will have written in 2013.
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Two thumbs up for the film 'Arbitrage"
Arbitrage is a word that 99.99 percent of us probably never heard of until the movie with that title appeared. I looked it up on Wikipedia and discovered why nobody had heard of it. It refers to Wall Street financiers and has a meaning so convoluted that I couldn't figure it out.
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And finally, the bottom of the barrel ...
Retirees … and why they like retirement! Question: How many days in a week? Answer: 6 Saturdays, 1 Sunday Question: When is a retiree's bedtime? Answer: Three hours after he falls asleep on the couch. Question: How many retirees to change a light bulb? Answer: Only one, but it might take all day. Question: What's the biggest gripe of retirees? Answer: There is not enough time to get everything done. Question: Why don't retirees mind being called Seniors? Answer: The term comes with a 10% percent discount. Question: Among retirees what is considered formal attire? Answer: Tied shoes. Question: Why do retirees count pennies? Answer: They are the only ones who have the time. Question: What is the common term for someone who enjoys work and refuses to retire? Answer: NUTS!
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Local Voices From Around the Globe: Will I be American or will I be Thai today?
