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The holiday season is of course a wonderful time of year to reconnect and spend time with loved ones but in many parts of the world, it’s also become a stretch of the calendar where waste of all sorts grows significantly. Obviously, we’re not going to suggest you cancel your holiday plans, but there are ways to be extra mindful of your climate impact this year. One way: the climate team at TIME put together this list of climate-conscious gifts, ranging in scale from $10 stocking stuffers to game-changing appliances with tech as exciting as any Apple product. [Read More]

Emma Sulkowicz is a junior at Columbia University. She is one of 23 Columbia and Barnard students who filed a federal Title IX complaint in April alleging that the university mishandled sexual assault cases. I was raped by a fellow classmate the first day of my sophomore year. I didn’t report it at first because I didn’t feel like dealing with the emotional trauma. But then I met two other women who told me the same person who had assaulted me assaulted them, and I decided I had to do something. [Read More]

The Dalai Lama apologized Monday morning after a video of him kissing a child on the lips and asking him to suck his tongue went viral on social media. The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader expressed his apologies to the boy and his family, “as well as his many friends across the world, for the hurt his words may have caused,” according to a statement by his office. “His Holiness often teases people he meets in an innocent and playful way, even in public and before cameras. [Read More]

At a time when student protests are sweeping across university campuses, McCullough’s advice to high school grads offers a reminder to embrace selflessness. Dr. Wong, Dr. Keough, Mrs. Novogroski, Ms. Curran, members of the board of education, family and friends of the graduates, ladies and gentlemen of the Wellesley High School class of 2012, for the privilege of speaking to you this afternoon I am honored and grateful. Thank you. [Read More]

Davido has announced the acquisition of a new wonder on wheels, Lamborghini Urus, which is valued at a staggering $200,000. On Sunday morning, August 25, 2019, Davido took to his Twitter to ask his fans and followers if she should ship the new vehicle to Nigeria or keep it in his Atlanta garage. ADVERTISEMENT According to cars.com, the 2019 Lamborghini Urus is an SUV which starts at $200,000 (MSRP), with a destination charge of $3,995. [Read More]

In its Dec. 27/Jan. 3 issue, the New Yorker ran a long piece about autism called “An Anthropologist on Mars,” and in the following issue the magazine ran a long piece called “E-Mail from Bill” about Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft. In some ways, the articles were strangely and intriguingly similar. AN ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS Some autistics possess an “excellent ability of logical abstract thinking.” E-MAIL FROM BILL A Microsoft executive is quoted: “‘Bill is just smarter than everyone else. [Read More]

Drake's had the Fab Four in his sights for a little while now. After beating The Beatles out for the record of most songs simultaneously in the Hot 100 , he made reference to them in an appearance on Meek Mill's song "Going Bad." That song was released last December; Drake rapped "I got more slaps than The Beatles," in one of the song's most memorable lines. Now, a glimpse of his new tattoo appears to show Drake waving farewell as he passes the Beatles in the formation of their classic Abbey Road album. [Read More]

Around a long table in a long room at Ohio State University last week gathered six men and a woman, the university’s board of trustees. They began to wrangle, as they had at every meeting for 18 months, about a new president for Ohio State. When George Washington Rightmire retired as president in 1938, the faculty, confidentially polled, proposed as his successor slim, efficient James Lewis Morrill, vice president of the university, or (second choice) Howard Landis Bevis, a Harvard law professor who had been an Ohio Supreme Court judge and finance director for two Governors. [Read More]

Daffne Cruz, an assistant principal in Polk County, Florida, says last year her district gave her LGBTQ-inclusive “safe space” stickers to distribute throughout the school. This year, when Cruz, who is queer, asked for more stickers to pass out, she claims her district told her they couldn’t provide them because of “new legislation.” This fall is the first school year in which teachers and school administrators must follow Florida’s HB 1557—called the “Parental Rights in Education” statute by lawmakers and dubbed the Don’t Say Gay law by critics—that banned public school districts from teaching about sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through the third grade, or “in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards. [Read More]

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Tom Cruse is roaring back onto the big screen this summer with “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning,” which hits theaters July 12. But fans of the action series can catch up on all six previous films right now, thanks to a new Mission:Impossible box set deal on Amazon. Get “Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning” Tickets Here [Read More]