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...everyday life. Our economy is too much focused on construction. It has gone well for many years, but apparently we are now at the bubble's bursting point. The increasing price of houses is untenable, and it is a handicap for young people and students like me who simply cannot afford to buy a house and therefore need to rely on our parents. That is the social problem that lies beyond, and no one seems to have a solution. Javier Iglesias de Ussel Madrid Hail to the King I was impressed by Pico Iyer's essay about Thailand's King...
...White House roof smoking cigarettes, placing bets with a bookie and toting a pet garter snake named Emily Spinach in her pocketbook. "I can be President of the United States or I can attend to Alice," Theodore Roosevelt once said when asked to discipline his headstrong eldest child. "I cannot possibly do both...
...silo didn't fully retract during launch because a part had corroded. The Missile Defense Agency penalized the Boeing Co., the system's developer, $107 million for the string of snafus. Pentagon audits also slammed Raytheon Corp., which builds the $40 million interceptor, for shoddy work. "The contractor cannot build a consistent and reliable product," the GAO said in a March report...
...listen to others," a respondent wrote in a recent study conducted in Britain. "People get over their anger, and people who disagree are not terrible," wrote another. Even those with troubled or self-destructive siblings came away with something valuable: they learned patience, acceptance and cautionary lessons. "[You] cannot change others," wrote one. "[But] I wasn't going to be like that...
...well that adult acquaintances expect more from me. Every Harvard undergraduate, every top student, invariably feels the burden of expectations: Mediocrity is unacceptable. Yet, I’m not the only overqualified employee at the theater. One of my colleagues attends NYU. Another goes to Dartmouth. One cannot help but wonder why this movie house has such a credentialed staff. It’s certainly not the pay. Nor does the job offer great excitement or intrigue. Rather, the draw seems to be very mundane nature of the work itself. After traveling through the academic year at warp speed...