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...dream childhood that would handily prepare a bright youngster for the intellectual rigors of life, right? Not really, writes Quart, now 34, in her new book, Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child (Penguin Press). "Having been built in the fashion I was as a child - created and then deflated - has left me with a distinct feeling of failure." Quart is unflinchingly honest about her unusual childhood experience. "My father would have bristled at the notion that he was an overbearing puppet master. If I sat absolutely quietly and wrote lyrical verse about tree-tops, I was peachy...
...their own. Having learned his lesson, says Yu, "I only donate to the projects that I can see and touch myself. I have to ensure that nobody could get illicit gains from my donations." Yu, who gave $250 million in 2005, according to Hurun, focuses his work on Bright Action, which has provided free cataract surgery to more than 40,000 poor villagers throughout China. (Yu's own sight was saved by a cataract operation in 2000.) But because there is still little support for philanthropy from local governments?"since they aren't able to take credit...
...mercy of an advertising market that's "not in great shape," says Alex DeGroote, media analyst at London stockbrokers Panmure Gordon. British papers' share of overall British ad spending is expected to drop to 34% this year, down from 40% 10 years ago. But there are bright spots: free from the heavy reliance on classified ads that the Internet is poaching from regional titles, Associated's morning Metro boasts advertising growth just shy of 10%. "We're bucking the trend," Auckland says. With the same aim, thelondonpaper is striving to accommodate advertisers. Expect circular ads smack in the middle...
...brief time on that bright, blue September morning, it seemed that the hidden vulnerability of the American colossus had been laid bare. The desperate decisions of some World Trade Center employees to leap to their deaths rather than burn in the flames, the heartrending phone calls of the doomed passengers on the fateful flights, the apocalyptic tsunami of dust that engulfed lower Manhattan as the Twin Towers imploded and fell--this was America's waking nightmare...
...course, the bright side of the New Orleans diaspora is that musicians like Neville are enriching the nation's music. Butler expects the disapora to influence sounds across the country. "Maybe five, ten years from now you are going to hear more street beats in their music," Butler said...