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...truth, it is unlikely that many Americans will fight too hard even for this more modest form of egalitarianism. This is because many crave the self-help genre’s stern brand of personal responsibility. Lisa Nichols, an author who appeared on Oprah, says her attitude to those who attend her workshops is, “I don’t want to know [your sad story].” What can come off as callousness towards undeserved suffering, is strong medicine for others. Another popular book, “Rich Dad, Poor Dad,” published...
...individuals after they have kids. It's being a unique, creative individual through your kids that's disturbing. Pierce whatever body part you want, having a kid is not alternative: it's been the norm since we stopped reproducing by division. And while toddlers may love punk rock, they crave routine and predictability...
...suffocating until it was too late, according to Gibbons. But reports of other violations were the result of procedural failures, he said. SAEN cited a Harvard lab for depriving monkeys of water, part of an experiment that involved giving monkeys grape juice as an incentive. To make the monkeys crave the juice, they were not given water—normally a legal practice, Gibbons said. Gibbons said the lab received a violation because researchers did not file the proper paperwork for the experiment which would have allowed the monkeys to not be given water. In another violation which SAEN referred...
...civility are essential. These are the collaborative qualities without which no institution of higher learning, no matter how rich or famous, can flourish. We assume fundamental administrative competence, honesty in matters great and small, and a rightly regulated ambition as essential to the job, but beyond these, we crave a president whom we can both trust and admire and to whose leadership among us we willingly consent...
...leadership in Europe, London today is quickly gaining ground on New York City. While the combined market capitalizations of U.S. companies listed on the n.y.s.e. and nasdaq dwarf the City's London Stock Exchange (lse), London has proved far better at attracting the new share listings that investment banks crave. In 2006, for example, 91 foreign companies chose to sell new shares on London's stock exchanges - more than four times the number of overseas listings in New York, according to consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers. London's smaller domestic business means that "if you're going to flourish, you have to look...