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In 1953, when Dorothy Stephens and her husband lived in married student housing at the University of Michigan, she envisioned a safe, conventional life ahead. She never imagined living in Kenya toward the end of the Mau Mau uprising, plunged into an exotic new world, facing safari ants, wild bees, and a vicious monkey, and discovering a core of strength deep in her security-loving soul. See Kenya through her eyes in its last tumultuous days as a British colony and witness the transformative effect on her life. Meet the emerging young leaders of the independence movement and the fascinating women who became her friends. Travel to Murchison Falls in Uganda and to Ngorongoro Crater in Tanganyika. Accompany her, with her house servant and three young children, on a three-hundred-mile drive to the Kenya coast through desolate bush inhabited by big game, a trip that had a profound and lasting impact.
In an academy squeezed hard by formidable pressures, what is the future of the faculty? Over the past 70 years, the American university has become the global gold standard of excellence in research and graduate education. The unprecedented surge of federal research support of the postWorld War II American university paralleled the steady strengthening of the American academic profession itself, which managed to attract the best and brightest educators from around the world while expanding the influence of the "faculty factor" throughout the academic realm. But in the past two decades, escalating costs and intensifying demands for efficiency have resulted in a wholesale reshaping of the acade...
Eep Saefulloh Fatah: Zaman Heri Latief Sampul majalah Time edisi 25 Desember 2006–1 Desember 2007 itu agak berbeda dengan sampul edisi khusus Person of the Year tahun-tahun sebelumnya. Biasanya pada sampul edisi khusus semacam itu kita akan mendapati gambar seorang atau sekelompok orang yang dipandang Time layak ditokohkan tahun itu. Namun, untuk edisi akhir 2006 itu tak ada sepotong pun wajah di sampul Time. Alih-alih, yang kita sua adalah gambar monitor komputer personal. Khusus pada bagian layar monitornya, cetakan dibuat khusus menyerupai cermin. Walhasil, siapapun yang memegang sampul majalah itu akan melihat pantulan wajahnya sendiri di layar monitor komputer itu. Ya, hanya itulah ya...