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...current project, which is unnamed, is still “in the early stages of development and its concept [is] in progress,” wrote Lascaze...
While President Obama is setting timetables for Afghanistan, hoping to start bringing U.S. troops home by 2011, Mackenzie's words note that the very concept of deadlines is largely foreign to Afghans. "Time is not seen as a valuable resource in Afghan society," he wrote. "Correspondingly, the use of calendars at all levels is virtually nonexistent...
Indeed, many professors—aware of the ways in which first impressions can enhance, destroy, or create an image—use this concept to great advantage. Any student seduced by a shopping period class will know the effect of pristine lectures or exciting demonstrations. In 1950, an MIT study confirmed that prior information given about a guest lecturer colored how students perceived him. Those told that he had negative attributes graded him harshly post-lecture; others told that he had positive attributes perceived him more kindly after the very same class. Apparently, good aesthetics can enhance one?...
...started a Yahoo! group with 20 or 30 people. The first item posted was my mattress, since my now wife and I were moving in together. Because I was posting so many things from that warehouse, other people got the concept really quickly--that this was a sort of cybercurbside where you could find things in your area to pick up and drop...
...concept that was able to go viral very quickly. A year after we had set up Freecycle.org we had a million members. Today we move 24,000 items a day, helping everyone from a 92-year-old man who collects bike parts so he can rebuild bikes for children to a kid who has set up an orphanage for unwanted guinea pigs...