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...work ethic. "I read something Bill Gates said about six months ago," he recalled last week over a long lunch in the new Apple cafeteria (when he came back, Jobs canned the company that ran that "dog-food" operation too). "He said, 'I worked really, really hard in my 20s.' And I know what he means, because I worked really, really hard in my 20s too--seven days a week, lots of hours every day. But you can't do it forever. You don't want to do it forever...
There were five couples--all in their 20s and 30s--in the workshop run earlier this year by Peter Fraenkel, director of the PREP Couples Program at New York University's Child Study Center. Fraenkel noticed something curious: when four of the men showed an eagerness to share their feelings more extensively with their partner, the response was, in effect, "What is this guy's problem? He's so needy...
Ventura carried every age group under 60 in Minnesota. In some places, students in their 20s lined up to cast their vote...
...parents' fossil-hunting expeditions, developing a love of the outdoors and a marked independent streak. After leaving school at 16, he at first rejected anything to do with fossils and archaeology for fear of being trapped in his parents' shadow. But by the time Leakey was in his late 20s, his team was making important finds. He wrote books on the origin of mankind and headed the National Museums of Kenya before turning to wildlife conservation...
...Hoxby, another struggle was to find the median where one could appropriately gauge the financial windfalls of a particular college degree. The mid-20s were too early, she says, because graduates have not become settled in their careers. While the earnings usually start to peak in the mid-40s, earnings potential can already be gauged by the early...