Still holding out hope to win your dream trip through a malarial jungle with Nick Kristof? Bad news for you, then, kiddies. We're reliably informed that the Times has winnowed the list of applicants down to about 15 finalists, and those finalists have been notified and asked to send along academic transcripts. (You've got to be an enrolled student at an American university for the change to spend time on a bedbug-infested mattress with Nick and his chin dimple, alas.) So if you haven't heard from them, you're no longer in it. Sorry about that.

The good news, however, is that if your ambition is to report not from Africa but rather from the rarefied reaches of Seattle society, we understand Mike Kinsley is still accepting new applications.

Win a Trip With Nick Kristof [NYT]
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