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...skid pad, then move on to a lesson in heel-toe technique: gunning the throttle while braking and downshifting (don't try this at home). After lunch, it's on to a slalom course, racing around cones placed in a tight configuration, then an exercise called "rat race," high-speed driving in hourglass formations...
...will make your life better." Kelley, 54, a professor in the engineering department at Stanford University and the chairman of Palo Alto, Calif., design firm Ideo, is sitting in his cramped third-floor office, surrounded by a blizzard of Post-it notes and foam-cut prototypes. Talking at the speed of a guy on his third espresso, occasionally jumping up to scribble ideas on a whiteboard, Kelley outlines his credo: that practically anyone in the business and academic worlds can and should think like a designer. "It isn't just the smartest kid in the art class, which is what...
...love to meet my own Mr. Right, I was definitely surprised that Jen jilted everyone. When it's tough enough for a single gal to get one date at times, it's hard to imagine spurning not just one but 25 good men. At 37, I have Internet-dated, speed-dated, office-dated and even dated the guy next door. I have come off yearlong dating dry spells only to find myself juggling three maybes at once. I have survived enough romantic catastrophes and near misses to know that I'm ready for a lasting relationship--if I can find...
...allow them to be." Coincidental to the government's plans for family law reform, the Family Court recently took steps toward self-improvement. Launched in two Sydney registries a year ago, the pilot Children's Cases Program aims to make cases quicker, cheaper, less formal and less acrimonious. Speed is achieved by skirting the rules of evidence: there's little scope for legal objection or technical argument. Litigants make an opening statement, directly addressing the judge, who - perhaps eschewing the wig and robe - keeps things moving with a word of advice here, a cautionary tale there. "The (eight) judges...
...Members of Congress could use a little primer too, say White House aides, who believe that elected officials wouldn't freeze behind the microphone if they did their homework a little more diligently. ?The members need to get up to speed,? admitted Rep. Mike Oxley of Ohio. But the ?education? better happen soon...