A reader from the New Jersey suburbs writes: We live in the competitive West Windsor-Plainsboro school district in New Jersey. My son is on three high school teams-swimming, baseball, and soccer. What should high school juniors do during their summers with an eye toward college admission?
Last week, Star Trek alum William Shatner auctioned one of his kidney stones for $25,000. Albeit for charity, the auction proves there are some really hard-core fans out there. No kidney stones were expected at the January 20-22 One Ring Celebration sci-fi convention at the Pasadena Center in California, although Lord of the Rings...
Sondra Mendelson didn’t enjoy practicing telecommunications law. The job didn’t mean much to her, and she’d often spend her days wondering if her work was contributing to society. But it was the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 that finally convinced her that she needed to change careers, and she enrolled in an online...
Editor’s note: This column is dedicated to the foreign students who’ve been sending us lots of queries: Siddharth from Bombay, India, Krunal from Baroda, India, Sherif from Cairo, Jyoti from Kuwait, and many more. “Resp. Alex Kingsbury,” begins one note, ” I am student who will be graduating from high school on the fall...
A presidential push for more study of key foreign languages
Blogger Ana Marie Cox watched the 2004 presidential campaign largely from the comfort of her living room, sniping at politicians, socialites, and the news media with piercing satire (and explicit inside jokes that can’t be repeated in a family newsmagazine). Now Cox, 33, better known by her nom de blog, Wonkette, has used that...
Playing a sport in college will not only keep you trim and busy, it can save you piles of money–if you’re good enough to get a scholarship, that is.
When the nuclear bomb was still young, weapons scientists dreamed that the doomsday devices could peacefully reshape the world. So began one of the most fantastic schemes ever devised–using hydrogen bombs as tools for civil engineering projects. Geographer and historian Scott Kirsch talked with U.S. News about his new book, Proving Grounds: Project Plowshare...