After seven years in the restaurant business, Jason Viteri decided to open a restaurant that served food that he was used to eating at his parents’ home using his Ecuadorian heritage and cooking experiences.

This past summer, at the age of 22, Viteri opened La Balandra, a restaurant that focuses on South American cuisine located on Farewell Street, off Broadway, in Newport.

The Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy presents Hugh Gusterson, Professor of Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Gusterson’s lecture “Nuclear Nightmares: The Culture Proliferation in Today’s World” will address issues of nuclear proliferation in the world, why states are failing to come to agreement on non-proliferation, and why there is reason to be afraid for the future.

I touched it and it was like a bolt of lightning went through me. I just knew,” explained a close work associate of Editor-in-Chief of SELF magazine, Lucy S. Danziger. “If your breasts usually feel like a bag of grapes, this felt like a pebble. It was that hard.

On Thursday, November 3, 2005 at 6:00 p.m. the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy will host a lecture featuring Brigadier General Russell Howard, USA (Ret.), director of the Jebsen Center for Counterterrorism Studies at the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

For many of us, traveling to another country symbolizes a luxurious, jet setting lifestyle, but sometimes it can be a very eye-opening experience. After hearing the inspiring convocation address of Fr. Angelo D’Agostino, founder of the first AIDS orphanage in Africa, at last year’s convocation ceremony, members of the Salve community felt compelled to get involved in the AIDS effort in Africa.