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...Zill and the others wander, they begin to question whether the chaos and destruction of this new freedom seems like a real improvement over the limited but safe world inside the cage. But this clever metaphor for the Iraqi people will sometimes get stretched thin by scenes created only for the sake of generating some action. At one point the pride must work together to overcome a ferocious bear. (The insurgency?) While I am as much in favor of an awesome lion vs. bear fight scene as the next guy, it feels like an obligatory fight scene being played...
...expects “to write on subjects relating to political economy.” He added that he is “excited about [the] broad global audience on topics of great import” that the column will afford him. He said that the column will begin later this month. The FT’s editor, Lionel Barber, told a fellow London-based daily, The Guardian, last week that Summers’ column “is certain to be widely read and highly provocative and I am very pleased to have him on board...
...words that novelist Lu Xun wrote 85 years ago, at the end of his short story My Old Home: "Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made." A pebble cast in the water may seem insignificant, but it creates ripples. Some ripples become waves, and some waves become tsunamis...
There's been a lot of talk lately about the coming workforce crisis--a shortage of all kinds of skilled workers as boomers begin to retire. It hasn't hit yet, but it will. By 2014, folks 50 and older will make up nearly a third of the U.S. workforce, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Jobs for snowbirds are one way that thoughtful companies are preparing. And those programs are one more way that you can tailor your retirement years to what best suits your needs...
...Luke's parents searched online for better intervention methods and came upon Boston Higashi. The school uses rigorous exercise to get autistic children to start eating and sleeping regularly. And once those biorhythms are on track, students can begin to acquire basic living and academic skills. Within four months of being at Higashi, Luke went home for vacation mostly toilet trained. He has since conquered such complex tasks as riding a unicycle and walking on stilts--activities that have given him confidence to try other new things. "I do think he can have a life that's happy and maybe...