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Title | Article: Global Kids: Summer Lessons on Foreign Relations |
Body | From http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/nyregion/06nyc.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y Learning in Summer, Gladly By CLYDE HABERMAN August 6, 2010 During a summer recess when most high school students would rather do little more than just hang out, these 13 young women and 12 young men spent the last three weeks at the Council on Foreign Relations listening to lectures and taking part in workshops on issues like global warming, China’s economic juggernaut, Darfur, child prostitution, international law and world trade. Playful things like that. Under the aegis of a nonprofit organization called Global Kids, they traveled weekdays from different corners of the city to East 68th Street in the rarefied neighborhood that is home to the council. Global Kids has been around for 21 years, seeking to interest students and teachers in the world around them. The program at the Council on Foreign Relations was designed for highly engaged students, who seem to have absorbed a fundamental lesson in life: Ignorance is a terrible strategy for success and a miserable excuse for failure. Read the full article at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/nyregion/06nyc.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y |
Source | New York Times |
Inputdate | 2010-08-30 10:34:42 |
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Publishdate | 2010-09-06 00:00:00 |
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