SurfWax News Index Track News Save/Exchange Information About Us News and Articles on Global Change Archives: Global Change On the road looking for typos Mar 29, 2008 "Herson, who was working in a Borders bookstore in Virginia Beach when he got the call from Deck, didn't need a whole lot of persuading. "The typo thing was just goofy enough to seem like a lot of fun," he said.A Manchester, N.H., native, Deck graduated from Dartmouth in 2002 with a degree in creative writing. He and Herson, a Dartmouth classmate, later moved to Washington, D.C., where Deck worked for an academic publishing house and as a magazine and journal editor. In 2006 he relocated to... (Boston Globe) The fiction of modern maps Mar 24, 2008 Perhaps, the sheer pace of global change prevents us from sheer incredulous amazement. Kosovo, of course, happens to be the latest entrant, and it also exemplifies the acrimony, the anxiety that the old constructs seem to feel at this amoeba-like splitting of the body. (India Times) Modern do-gooders Mar 22, 2008 Bill Drayton, the godfather of this movement, went to Harvard, Yale, Oxford and McKinsey before founding Ashoka, a global change network. Those who follow him typically went to some fancy school, did a stint with Teach for America or AmeriCorps before graduate school. (International Herald Tribune Ed/Op) | |
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