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...with most things, procrastination can only become dangerous if you take it too far. Chronic procrastination is more complex than simple time management, and may actually reflect a reluctance to take risks or confront decisions. So think about what lies beneath your habits...
This is why we cannot see recruiting as beneath us. There is no consistency in claiming superiority to a system from which one was derived and indeed from which one still reaps benefits. That would be hypocrisy, and you certainly can’t run the world with that kind of reputation...
...that I don’t feel anger or sorrow or frustration, but I’ve gotten pretty good at keeping them in check. But when my dad called the night I heard about Grandpa’s death, my ability to remain in control dropped out from beneath me. As the sun set on a quiet residential street in the Jewish district of Krakow, I yelled at my dad and my sister. I fought tears, and yet they came anyway. I still don’t know if I was angry or just sad that I had missed...
...debate." The country desperately needs to rebuild its economy. But any liberalization could lead to a loss of the absolute political control enjoyed by Kim. The dilemma is evident during a visit to the Kumsung Educational Institute. Boys recruited from around the country are learning English and computer skills beneath portraits of Kim and his father, state founder Kim Il Sung. In one class, students are studying Microsoft PowerPoint on Taiwanese computers, and 10-year-old Chun In Hyo shyly tells a visitor: "I will be a scientist." Down the hall, an older student poring over a Cambridge English text...
...much of Alaska. With oil, as with textiles, domestic production peaked because others began producing the same stuff cheaper, while we contrived to make our production more expensive. Today Alaska contains 18 billion bbl. of off-limits crude. We've embargoed at least an additional 30 billion bbl. beneath our coastal waters. And we could fuel many of our heavy trucks and delivery vehicles for a decade with the 20 billion bbl. worth of natural gas we've placed off limits in federal Rocky Mountain lands...