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Madison.com
April 13, 2018
Travel can do wonders for a person. It can open your eyes to other cultures and provide you with experiences you could never have anywhere else. At the same time, when visiting a place that's drastically different from where you're from, you may experience culture shock, a sense of disorientation thatÃâà...
Simplemost
April 12, 2018
Travel can do wonders for a person. It can open your eyes to other cultures and provide you with experiences you could never have anywhere else. At the same time, when visiting a place that's drastically different from where you're from, you may experience culture shock, a sense of disorientation thatÃâà...
Condé Nast Traveler
August 8, 2017
Say you're in Tijuana, and one of the people you're traveling with made a slightly inadvisable decision and ended up a guest of the local authorities. You ask the friendly Tijuana police officers what you can do to help your friend, and they shrug and say, “Call your embassy.” But a quick Google searchÃâà...
Condé Nast Traveler
June 19, 2017
Preparing for a visit to a foreign country can often be overwhelming, with no shortage of things to learn before you go. Where should you eat? Where should you stay? What do you tip? More so than this service information, though, is a sense of cultural understanding that's hard to put your finger on.
Mondoweiss
July 28, 2015
It hurts, being betrayed by someone you cared for – by someone you trusted. All those old pictures of better times serve as but stinging reminders of what once was had but now is lost. For 31-year-old Jayel Aheram, however, there were no tears. The former Marine turned antiwar activist was firmly in theÃâà...
Brookings Institution
November 20, 2014
At its optimistic best, America has embraced its identity as the world's melting pot. Today it is on the cusp of becoming a country with no racial majority, and new minorities are poised to exert a profound impact on U.S. society, economy, and politics. In April 2011 a New York Times headline announced,Ãâà...
Brookings Institution
June 16, 2013
Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders – mayors, business and labor leaders, educators, and philanthropists – are stepping up and powering the nationÃâà...
New York Times
October 16, 2007
It has whisked Debra Cagan, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for coalition affairs, from Tirana to Skopje, and on to Chisinau and Astana, among other luminous world metropolises. In Chisinau — you guessed it; that's the capital of Moldova — Cagan asked for more sappers in Iraq. MoldovaÃâà...
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