Generally Meatless: A Quirky Book for All Types of Music and a New Album for Stereolab / OOO, Mary!
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The new book by the America’s Test Kitchen is called Mostly Meatless: Green up your plate without totally changing your diet and it features some pretty good meatless recipes.
🎭 Theater: The Broadway comedy Oh, Mary! offers a reimagined portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln, depicting her as a woman who has developed an addiction to alcohol in her desperate pursuit of becoming a cabaret star. Cole Escola, who wrote the play and stars as Mary, discusses the show’s success with Fresh Air.
Stereolab’s new album is their first in 15 years. Robert Moore of 90.9 The Bridge in Kansas City joins Stephen Thompson to talk about the group’s new music and the other best albums out this week.
17 Books We Love to Read About Pee-Wee as Hess: Two International Students Disturbance about the War in Gaza
📚 Books: There are several great fiction and nonfiction titles being published this summer. As part of the Books We Love series, here are 17 of those books NPR critics can’t wait to read.
📺 TV: The two-part HBO documentary Pee-wee as Himself features footage and thousands of photos from the late Paul Reubens’ life and career. Reubens is the performer who created the iconic Pee-wee Herman character.
International students in the US are having a difficult time deciding if they should speak out against the war in Gaza or not. Federal judges are blocking the Trump administration from deporting some students because of their comments about the war in Gaza. However, the government has indicated it will continue to cancel some students’ visas, citing national security concerns. NPR’s Adrian Florido recently spoke with two international graduate students in the final weeks of their academic programs who decided to continue speaking out despite the risk of losing their visas and being detained or deported. The two students discussed how that decision impacted their lives and plans for the future.
Source: Harvard’s ability to enroll international students revoked. And, summer book releases
The enigmatic attacker killed two Israeli Embassy employees in Washington, D.C.: Elias Rodriguez, the president’s father, and a friend of his father
The Supreme Court granted an emergency request by the Trump administration to fire the heads of two agencies. The two fired individuals are member of the Merit Systems Protection Board and a member of the National Labor Relations Board. The 6-3 ruling is technically temporary, but it indicates how the higher court views the extent of the president’s power.
And Harvard is not unique. Thousands of high schools, colleges and universities have similarly hosted international students through these visa programs.
Elias Rodriguez, who is suspected of killing two Israeli Embassy employees outside a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C., has been charged with first-degree murder, the murder of foreign officials and other crimes. Law enforcement officials are continuing to investigate the attack as a possible hate crime. Rodriguez traveled from his home in Chicago to the nation’s capital the day before the attack. The museum mixer was just three hours before it was to start, and he purchased a ticket for it.
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The Number of International Students at Harvard is 20% of the Total Enrollment at Yale University, and the U.S. Economic Activity is Growing Stronger than Expected
There are nearly 7,000 international students at Harvard. According to the data from Harvard, this is 25% of its total enrollement.
International scholars from 129 countries were included in the number of 3,639 at Yale University.
Billions of dollars are spent in the nation each year on economic activity thanks to international students.
“International students’ contributions to the U.S. are significant and multi-faceted, and this year’s record-breaking economic total is the latest proof of that,” Fanta Aw, NAFSA executive director and CEO, said in a statement. “Yet we cannot be complacent. Meanwhile, competition for the world’s best and brightest is increasing.”
China had more than 277,000 students and almost 123,000 graduate students studying in the US. It’s the leading nation for sending undergraduates and non-degree students to the U.S. Combined, India and China account for more than half of all international students in the country.
In November, Open Doors® 2024 Report on International Educational Exchange announced that the total number of international students at U.S. colleges and universities reached an all-time high of more than 1.1 million students for the 2023 and 2024 year.
In its lawsuit against the Trump administration, the oldest and wealthiest private university in the US stated that it wanted to enroll thousands of foreign students.