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...half as much as they think do. Essentially, juniors feel from the beginning of the year that they know what they're talking about, and that the coming year will just be a matter of getting what they want out of their remaining time here. Where they are correct is that junior year is in some ways the make or break year, the year in which you will either figure out what you're doing here or decide that you will continue to putter through the rest of your college days, and make more of what follows. Either...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: Seniors Know Best | 4/13/1999 | See Source »

...while I love my bicycle--it's easier than walking, especially downhill--and can appreciate how much better it would be if I had a little motorized help, I ask myself, Why bother with pedals at all? No, what this slug needs for his first foray into environmentally correct transportation is an electric scooter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking an E-Ride | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...first Take Your Dog to Work Day. June 26 is Why Does This Office Smell Bad? Day. While the homeless go ignored, almost 28.5 million Americans bought their dogs Christmas presents last year. A woman I know throws her dogs a Bar Mitzvah every year. That's not even correct on a religious level. People knit their dogs things. Now I've never knitted anything, but it looks like a pretty serious endeavor. If getting married meant knitting something instead of buying a ring, there would be even more out-of-wedlock births...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why I Hate Dogs | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...blows there from the land. No. It's the waves... Piaget recognized that five-year-old Julia's beliefs, while not correct by any adult criterion, are not "incorrect" either. They are entirely sensible and coherent within the framework of the child's way of knowing. Classifying them as "true" or "false" misses the point and shows a lack of respect for the child. What Piaget was after was a theory that could find in the wind dialogue coherence, ingenuity and the practice of a kind of explanatory principle (in this case by referring to body actions) that stands young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Child Psychologist Jean Piaget | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...then known, was a welcome and stunning endorsement of Louis' views. Louis and Richard had been feuding over museum matters, and this discovery brought them together again in a final meeting shortly before Louis died. He spent his last days comforted by the knowledge that he had been proved correct. Since then, however, the skull has been correctly dated to 1.8 million years; despite Louis and Richard's objections, most anthropologists today believe Australopithecus is indeed one of our ancestors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anthropologists: THE LEAKEY FAMILY | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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