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WATCH - This is what happens when our interns think up the “top 3 reasons” why we’re classy, and get our co-founder to read them live (warning - not classy).

Watch and then VOTE for The Adventure Project: www.stayclassy.org/vote 1. Select EAST 2. Select “Best New Charity” and “Distaster Relief and International Aid” (two chances to win)!! 3. Press enter. 4. Tumble, tumble and feel fantastic (and you should be our friend on facebook, too - www.facebook.com/TheAdventureProject

Thank you for helping us create jobs in developing countries. Truly appreciate it. Voting ends this Thursday at midnight, so please vote today!

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AP Photos: Cuba as seen on a people-to-people tour

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Resist the easy comforts of complacency, the specious glitter of materialism, the narcotic paralysis of self-satisfaction. Be worthy of your advantages. And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone you love, with all your might.

David McCullough at Wellesley Commencement: ‘You Are Not Special’ (via Newsweek/The Daily Beast).  He also points out that YOLO, if grammatically correct, should be YLOO. Less of a ring to it, but it's true.

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Ooops. #abetteramercia

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"the mindy project" staring the office's mindy kaling. coming to fox this fall. 

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i need this girl to blow up- she's been amazing for years.

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"There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready."

Maurice Sendak, author of "Where The Wild Things Are" dies at 83. (via nprfreshair)

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But even among conservative groups on Monday, the word “tea” never escaped Mr. Schilling’s lips, not even as a drink. (He starts his days with a concoction involving three shots of espresso. He calls it “the warrior.”)

from NYTimes "Many G.O.P. Freshmen Who Stormed the House Find It Harder to Stay Seated"

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from NPR "Rodney King Comes To Grips With 'The Riot Within':

The courtroom artist's drawing of Rodney King as he testifies in the federal trial against four police officers accused of violating his civil rights in 1991.

King will be speaking at NYPL's Schomburg Center this Tuesday.

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from PASTE:

awE naturalE is an album without floors or ceilings. It neither begins nor ends. It doesn’t announce its existence with grand intentions or furrowed severity—it prefers to adroitly hover in the air.

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must read long-form feature on the progression of the cholera outbreak in haiti, the UN's inadequate response and the expert predictions that didn't go far enough 

Dr. Farmer said he kept thinking about the many water stations at the New York City Marathon: “That’s for a sport, for heaven’s sake. You’re telling me the giant humanitarian aid machine can’t do that in an epidemic?”

from nytimes "Global Failures on a Haitian Epidemic" by Deborah Sontag

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touching video from nytimes:

A look at the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of Lt. Col. John Darin Loftis, one of the U.S. Air Force’s prized experts in Afghan language and culture, who was killed in Kabul on Feb. 25, 2012.