Friday, July 25th, 2014

MAG - Focus on Vietnam

For 25 years, MAG has been working to clear landmines and unexploded ordnance and, for 15 of those years, we have been in Vietnam. As a result, we have staff there who have spent their careers with MAG, working to make their country a safer place. Most of the stories in this newsletter are written directly by those staff, so you… [Read Full Article]

Thursday, July 24th, 2014

MAG - Focus on Vietnam

Two more children die 40 years later I have worked for seven years for MAG in Quang Binh as a Community Liaison Officer, and have heard about so many accidents in the poor villages: two 14-year-old boys, one killed and one badly injured when they set off a submunition in the schoolyard; a man, who is still suffering from the… [Read Full Article]

Monday, July 21th, 2014

Online School for Girls puts focus on connection, collaboration

By SARA HAYDEN Much to English teacher Ed Raines' surprise, his students had never heard Puccini's soaring melodies that inspired David Henry Hwang's "M. Butterfly," nor the way Louis Armstrong could make a trumpet talk in Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man." In the middle of a faculty meeting at Westridge School in Pasadena, he passed his colleague, a music teacher, a note.… [Read Full Article]

Monday, July 07th, 2014

U.S.-Cuban Relations on Higher Ed Level Continue to Grow

Something historic happened last January at Miami-Dade College. At a community college that stands as one of the nation’s largest institutions of higher education with approximately 170,000 students spread across seven campuses, 15 foreign exchange students from Cuba arrived at the school for a semester of study. Despite the trade embargo and the lack of formal diplomatic ties between the… [Read Full Article]

Sunday, July 06th, 2014

On Being Gay, And Socialist, In Cuba Today

by JASMINE GARSD June 26, 2014 3:46 PM ET     It was very late at night the last time Isbel Diaz Torres and his boyfriend were stopped by Cuban police. "They asked for our IDs, which is a rare procedure," Diaz recalls. The policeman then dropped the men's IDs on the floor. " 'That's very funny for you, a… [Read Full Article]