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...someone's passport and the place he or she considers home: "Your passport tells you what country you are allowed to reside in. Your heart tells you what is home. Sometimes parents don't realize the depth of connection their children feel to the country they are living in." Dale Ford, head counselor at the Singapore American School, observes, "No student ever wants to leave where they are. It doesn't matter if they're moving from Singapore to Tokyo or from Las Vegas to Peoria. There is almost always a row within the family...
...game lasts for five to seven innings, depending on the league. Expertise isn't required. "I am totally not athletically inclined," says Jennifer Wendt, 27, a Minneapolis marketing manager and enthusiastic kickball player. "But kids can play it, so I figured I could play it too." --By Sarah Sturmon Dale...
Cirrus is planning to take control of the skies by not actually thinking like an airplane maker, says CEO Alan Klapmeier, 44, who along with his brother Dale, 42, founded the company. The two--who started tinkering with user-friendly, homemade planes in their parents' dairy barn near Baraboo, Wis., in the mid-1980s--created Cirrus from a clean sheet of paper. "Plane design and performance hadn't really changed in decades," says Alan, a physics major, who is determined to make flying more accessible. "We were convinced there was a market for a very safe, smartly designed, high-performance...
...Conversation," which he wrote shortly after forming the Junto, Franklin stressed the importance of deferring--or at least giving the appearance of deferring--to others. Otherwise, even the smartest comments would "occasion envy and disgust." His secret for how to win friends and influence people read like an early Dale Carnegie course: "Would you win the hearts of others, you must not seem to vie with them, but to admire them. Give them every opportunity of displaying their own qualifications, and when you have indulged their vanity, they will praise you in turn and prefer you above others... Such...
...Second, is the world better off and safer now than it was four years ago? (Does anyone truly feel comfortable taking an airplane trip to Europe?) Third, do we feel safer in the U.S. now that we have many fewer civil liberties than we did four years ago? DALE HILL Washita, Okla...