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...haunt fertility Web sites and message boards. TTC = trying to conceive. Aunt Flo, or AF, refers to the monthly visitor that makes for an especially unwelcome guest when trying to get baby on board. Murkoff devotes an entire page to other acronyms, alphabetized and far more obscure: If BD is baby dance, a.k.a. sex, then DP translates as dancing partner. There's also BFN (big fat negative) and BFP (big fat positive) to describe pregnancy-test results, natch. And don't forget the appropriate salutation or, as the case may be, sign-off: FTTA (fertile thoughts...
...BD: Four words: Integrate and Recruit, and Collegial and Entrepreneurial. These fellows have to be able to spread their influence and embolden others to change with them...
...BD: Look at Indonesia in the 1980’s. When we went there, they said you couldn’t change it. They said it was impossible. It was chaos from war after war for decades. But we went there and worked quietly to find those social entrepreneurs. Over time, the hostility died down, and the New Order collapsed. The first elected President—he was an Ashoka nominator. The first director—he was an Ashoka fellow...
...BD: It’s exceedingly simple. Give yourself permission to do it. Why do so many people put themselves in a box for 20 years after college, when the world needs such changemakers? Give yourself permission to make it happen, and then all you have to do is persist...
...BD: If the University would do more to bring out these leaders, to get this talent out into the world to make change, we could see a drastic transformation. It’s time to invert these broken systems, it’s time to take down these broken social institutions, and make them better. Harvard should know this and should be doing more to get its students out in the world making change...