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  • Mission Admission

    Mission Admission

    Chasing the dream of an American university education.
    Photograph courtesy Denise Applewhite/Princeton University, Office of Communications

  • he Student Journalist

    The Student Journalist

    Young Americans interested in journalism get a jump on their careers by graduating from high school or college already equipped with work experience and published articles, photographs, radio broadcasts or Web pages.
    Photograph by SEBASTIAN JOHN

  • Twilight Tourism

    Twilight Tourism

    The small, rain-soaked town of Forks, Washington is booming with tourism from the hugely popular “Twilight” novels and their Hollywood movie adaptations.
    Photograph by ELAINE THOMPSON © AP-WWP

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Harper Lee’s Novel Achievement

To spend an hour in Monroeville, Alabama, is to know why Harper Lee, the author of “To Kill A Mockingbird,”ranks as one of the crankiest writers on the planet. Strongly inclined to put ...
Photograph by AJIT KUMAR

Games Journeyman

Finding out who is fastest, strongest, highest, farthest and most accurate is the bottom line in sports events such as the Commonwealth Games.
Photograph courtesy Room to Read

Creating Rooms to Read

Hema Bisht, who lives in a village near Nainital in Uttarakhand, had to give up school after finishing the 10th grade. Her family could not afford the fees, and with five children ...
Photograph courtesy Bhawna Mahalwal

Dispelling Myths, Building Bonds

Indian exchange students develop greater skills, knowledge and understanding about American culture while learning something about themselves...

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A Road Runner’s U.S. OdysseyA Road Runner’s U.S. Odyssey

Dilip D’Souza, like Wordsworth, has turned on their heads the clichéd sayings about how we travel to learn about other peoples and places. We do, no doubt. Yet D’Souza, in “Roadrunner: An Indian Quest in America,” shows that the intelligent, open-eyed and open-eared traveler gains even greater ...  » Read More
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Photograph by SEAN VALLELYLines of Identity

The first anthology of contemporary South Asian American poetry is not just about saris, migration and Bollywood. The 49 radically different voices also speak about a high school cheerleader, ­basketball and ... » Read More
Education

Photograph by UMESH SERIALThinking Outside the Box

Samuel Micklus, program director of Odyssey of the Mind, a problem-solving competition for students from kindergarten through college, answered questions on encouraging creativity in children during a U.S. Embassy-sponsored Web chat in India recently.  » Read More
Education

Photograph courtesy American University of Sharjah photo archives Expanding the Reach of American Universities

U.S. colleges are working with countries that want access to the unique qualities of American education for their citizens. They are trying overseas branches, franchise programs, shadow diplomas, faculty and ... » Read More
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This calendar celebrates the 50th anniversary of SPAN magazine as a bridge between India and the United States. This calendar celebrates the 50th anniversary of SPAN magazine as a bridge between India and the United States.