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Make This Your Most Healthful Summer Yet!

By Jordan Walker, Syracuse University for THE REAL COLLEGE GUIDE

Summer is here! No longer do you have to depend on your college’s dining hall grub, sleep on the thinnest mattress ever or spend your spare time studying instead of working out. Rather than perpetuating bad habits such as chasing a fast-food value meal with a fistful of corn chips you can amp up this season for a more healthful lifestyle!

Healthy Summer Fitness Tips

Make it a habit. Now that you can’t use class and exams as an excuse to skip the gym, establish a daily exercise routine to get in tip-top shape for the summer. Set

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Knishkowy ?13 Studies World Hunger

World hunger is a pressing issue, yet its causes aren’t fully known and there is much debate about what responsibilities developed countries should have in ending it. Daniel Knishkowy ’13, a recipient of a 2011 Emerson Summer Grant, will explore the issue of world hunger with Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran for their project, “World Hunger: The Debate About its Causes and the Scope of Our Ethical Responsibilities.”

Knishkowy’s project takes an honest look at the science of food hunger and its technical causes. He will investigate whether there is a food shortage in the world, or if hunger is a result of poor distribution of otherwise sufficient resources. At the sa

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BBC College of Journalism relaunches foreign-language websites

On my first day as a news presenter at the BBC World Service, I realised that, in order to produce and present an impartial, balanced and accurate report, in addition to journalistic training I badly needed to know the in-house style of my department: which Pashto word to use; which pronunciation to go for; and how to translate a word accurately.

Ever since, it has been my dream to create a mechanism which will support journalists in the language they are broadcasting.

Three years ago, I saw the possibility of achieving that goal when the BBC College of Journalism accepted my proposal to create a set of websites about journalism for all of the languages in which the BBC broadcasts.

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A Taste of Honey: One Sweet Read

The moment I heard Associate Professor Jabari Asim read “Zombies” at a graduate faculty reading hosted by Emerson’s Writing, Literature, and Publishing (WLP) department last February, his collection A Taste of Honey: Stories earned the next spot on my ever-growing reading list.

Asim kept me engaged in the story with the vivacious energy he projected in his voice while reading, but what really caught my attention were the elements he used which, to me, make fiction good—conflict, strong voice, and a complex character, all delivered with a subtle dose of humor. And that

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ECC students to experiment with weather balloons

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Students to experiment with weather balloons: El Camino College Research Academy students plan to send two helium weather balloons into space in an effort to collect pictures at the edge of the atmosphere.

The initiative, termed Project Space Balloon 999, was set to be the subject of a test this past Saturday. An official launch is scheduled for this Sunday in the mountains near Riverside.

The students plan to have the balloon travel 30 kilometers into the atmosphere, where the air will reach temperatures as low as minus 48 degrees Fahrenheit. When it pops, a parachute will unfurl, bringing the payload back to the ground along a specified route.

The program is sponsored by El Camino’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) grant program.

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Beach Bums

By David Replogle for The Real College Guide

Ahh, Beach Week. A long-lived University of Virginia tradition that comes every year just at the right time: spring semester, right after exams have wrapped, when everyone’s tired of being stressed out and ready to relax under sunny South Carolina skies. Of course, Beach Week isn’t just, well, a week at the beach. It’s a time of great celebration after the end of another great year and, as with any time of excessive celebrating, it comes with some crazy antics. Going

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