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...helping their offspring keep up with the neighbors' kids. But such measures don't necessarily work, writes Quart, and may even backfire. "Designating children as gifted, especially extremely gifted, and cultivating that giftedness may be not only a waste of money, but positively harmful," she writes. "The overcultivated can develop self-esteem problems and performance anxiety." An extreme example was Brandenn Bremmer, a teenager with an IQ over 160, who made national news when he entered college at age 10. He told Quart in an interview, "America is a society that demands perfection."In March...
...yourself, but you can't innovate that way." He ought to know. For six decades, SRI, based in Menlo Park, Calif, has endured as a prolific incubator of money-minting ideas, playing a key role in creating everything from the computer mouse to the HDTV standard, which Carlson helped develop. Over the past 20 years, Carlson has searched SRI and countless corporations for the best practices of innovation. Now he has, with William Wilmot, director of the Collaboration Institute, laid all that learning down in a book, Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want...
...Printers in Emeryville, Calif., for 25 years. Ironically, she adds, advances in computer technology have allowed letterpress designers to use photopolymer plates--which contain the image and text to be printed--in place of hand-set type. "I hope the people who are printing now--me included--are helping develop an audience that will be cultivated and maintained so our craft can survive," she says...
...Predictions: Harvard will beat Yale. Again. You will hook up with a Bulldog and develop a strange rash. More...
...Predictions: You will break up with your boyfriend and wish you hadn’t blocked with him. Your drinking team will develop a Parliamentary Debate Problem. You will find section strangely fulfilling. April Fools...