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How to Stay Safe and Healthy While Studying Abroad

How to Stay Safe and Healthy While Studying Abroad

Risk managers' common-sense tips for making your time abroad as safe as possible.
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A World Apart

A World Apart

When you’re alone and far from home, mental health issues can be magnified. How to cope during a semester abroad.
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Con Voyage

Con Voyage

How to avoid scams, keep your cash—and still have fun.
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A Duty to Care: The ad-hoc humanitarian response in Lesvos, Greece

A Duty to Care: The ad-hoc humanitarian response in Lesvos, Greece

Are ad-hoc volunteers helping or hindering refugee relief efforts in Greece?
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Elephant Treks: Don't Get Taken for a Ride

Elephant Treks: Don't Get Taken for a Ride

Elephants, freed from the cruelty of Thailand's logging industry, now face an equally grim prospect: Tourism.
Published in Beyond the Guidebook
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Cruise Ship Work: The Secret to Not Going Overboard

Cruise Ship Work: The Secret to Not Going Overboard

Working on a cruise ship means long hours, late nights and its own kind of party culture. Here's how to stay on the deck and out of the infirmary.
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Olympian Kerri Walsh shakes the hands of volunteers during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

How to Volunteer at the Olympics—and Beyond

Let the games begin.
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Travel Like You've Never Travelled Before

Travel Like You've Never Travelled Before

Three intrepid travellers share their best tips for losing the jitters and seizing the opportunities.
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Out For Blood: Preventing Tick Bites

Out For Blood: Preventing Tick Bites

If your summer travel plans include playing or working outdoors, know how to recognize, avoid—and get rid of—these dangerous hitchhikers.
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Selective Vaccinations: Staying Healthy Off the Beaten Path

Selective Vaccinations: Staying Healthy Off the Beaten Path

Which shots do you really need? It depends not only on where you're going, but also what you'll be doing there. Part two of a two-part series.
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Spot the mongoose

Why I Travel: Wildlife Conservation in South Africa

Cathy Hue works crazy hours, lives in a little wooden shed and spends three out of four weeks in the bush. She wouldn't trade it for anything.
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Vaccine Tips For Budget Travellers

Vaccine Tips For Budget Travellers

Travel vaccines can cost a bundle. Asking these questions could save you some money. Part one of a two-part series.
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