What strike?
Oct 28, 2009 12:21 am“Welcome to one of the most characteristic events in Milan: the public transportation strike.” This was the e-mail I received last Thursday from my university the night before a strike was to take place.
“Welcome to one of the most characteristic events in Milan: the public transportation strike.” This was the e-mail I received last Thursday from my university the night before a strike was to take place.
If Chile were a person, its jaw would have dropped to the floor Oct. 17. For the first time in history, Chile is going to the Olympics in gymnastics. Earning 15.225 points, Tomas Gonzalez earned seventh place in the World Championship of Gymnastic Arts to qualify for the London 2012 Olympics.
I had a tour guide in Hampi who thought everything was fabulous. She thought ruins were fabulous. She thought landscapes were fabulous. And she absolutely thought temples were fabulous.
SAO PAULO, Brazil - There are several things, it seems, that a majority of the Brazilians I have met all possess: a television, a pair of Havaianas (a particular brand of flip-flops) and, when it comes to adolescent Brazilians, an Orkut account.
Sometimes I feel like the greatest difference between the other students in my study abroad program and I is that they’re all here for practical reasons.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients.
The first thing I saw after stepping off a plane and into the London Heathrow Airport was a sign.
SANTIAGO, Chile - Chile, like every country, has some of its own unique, popular dishes. Chilean cuisine includes a combination of Spanish influences with later influences from Europe and the Middle East.
SANTIAGO, Chile - Tito “El Bambino,” the famous 28-year-old Puerto Rican reggaeton singer, swooned the crowd last Saturday at the Movistar Arena in Santiago.
Crave Sydney is a new event that celebrates Sydney’s culture, and there are heaps of different events that entice all age groups.
In Bloomington, I live about three miles off campus – about 10 minutes away by car. The Bloomington Transit bus is the only one that comes near my house, and it only comes every hour and does not run on the weekends.
I have never experienced public transportation like I have in Seoul.
A former chief of staff and longtime friend of ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich pleaded guilty to wire fraud Tuesday and promised to cooperate with federal prosecutors in their corruption case against the former governor.
University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman resigned Tuesday following months of pressure over special attention the school paid to politically connected applicants at its Urbana-Champaign campus and news that some were admitted over more qualified students.
I thought I was prepared for Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, but people started letting fireworks off in the hallway leading up to Diwali and haven’t stopped since.
MILAN - It is 9 a.m., the beginning of the Italian workday. On the morning metro there are men in business suits, women in heels and a child tapping her dirty pink converse to the beat of a Gypsy man playing a violin.
AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France - At first I thought it was a massive dog. After all, to the Aixois, a pooch is almost as necessary an accessory as the ubiquitous French scarf; it was far from unlikely that some huge pup had been let off its leash to amble around the Parc Jourdan.
We arrived with doctors from Cusco, the biggest city in the area, at a small rural community to provide free medicine and medical care, courtesy of ProPeru.
I have known countless friends and classmates who spend summers working a convenient internship position at their parents’ places of work – is this nepotism?
Solutions by The State News