March 30, 2007

A Wide World of Risk

By MARTIN VAN DER WERF

The growth in study abroad forces colleges to foresee dangers wherever students travel

In July of last year, Israeli bombs were falling on Beirut, and American students gathered on the outskirts of the city, looking for a way out. A line of buses chartered by International SOS, an international security company, pulled up. A worker from the Philadelphia-based company called out a list of the people they had come for. Eventually about 75 students — those who were covered by

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