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Editor's Note:The author is a resident of Kirland House, a fact not originally disclosed in this post...
...Lake Atitlan to Italy's Lake Como. The Italian body of water, he wrote, "touches the limit of the permissibly picturesque." Atitlan, however, "is Como with the additional embellishment of several immense volcanoes. It is really too much of a good thing." Guatemalans have interpreted this declaration by the author of Brave New World to mean that Lake Atitlan is the most beautiful lake in the world - which is the billing on most of the tourist brochures, despite Huxley's ambivalent phrasing...
Retailers know they can't afford to ignore discounting from online retailers. "If they can't get the consumer off of Amazon and into their store, then they'll lose the entire share of wallet, not just the one product that they lost to Amazon," says Rick Smith, author of The Leap and founder of Marketing50...
...acclaimed journalist and author of a number of bestsellers including “Blink” and “Tipping Point,” Gladwell’s new book is a collection of essays on topics ranging from the origins of ketchup to the inspiration for Led Zeppelin’s music...
Pinker, himself author of a number of popular texts on cognitive psychology including “How the Mind Works,” argues against Gladwell’s claim that I.Q. scores are not good predictors of success in the job market...