Word: entrepreneurism
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Humans often report the same kind of temperamental determinism. Families are full of stories of the inexhaustible infant who grew up to be an entrepreneur, the phlegmatic child who never really showed much go. But if it's genes that run the show, what accounts for the Shipps, who didn't bestir themselves until the cusp of adulthood? And what, more tellingly, explains identical twins--precise genetic templates of each other who ought to be temperamentally identical but often exhibit profound differences in the octane of their ambition...
...down-and-out young people. From that modest start his Prince's Trust has become the country's largest foundation helping youth in need; it's given money and advice to more than 60,000 young people to help them start their own businesses. As a kind of charitable entrepreneur, Charles runs 15 other foundations, all but two his own brainchildren, that raise over $190 million per year, employ 1,400 and attract 10,000 volunteers, making his the biggest multipurpose philanthropy in Britain. Charles' goals are not exactly radical, but neither are they blandly inoffensive. He promotes organic farming...
Your profiles of the Heroes were truly inspiring. Lebanese entrepreneur Asma-Maria Andraos put it best: "If you have a few good people, maybe you can change the world." It would be wonderful, however, if profiles of such inspirational people could focus more on heroes who come out of Africa. We need to highlight the positive occurrences on our continent instead of famine, wars and institutionalized corruption. Despite what the world usually hears, there are great stories in Africa. Mudiaga Sota Lagos...
...scary.”At Mass. Ave.’s busy and crowded Oona’s, a popular second-hand store, owner Kathleen M. White dealt with the Halloween costume rush. She said it’s the 34th the store has seen. A seasoned Cambridge entrepreneur, White knew about the various costume-themed parties happening around campus this weekend.One group of Harvard girls came into the store to pick out pimp gear to wear to Adams House’s Sweet ’N Nasty party, White said.Many Harvard students will buy several costumes for various...
Some wonder if the backbiting tide won't recede as blogs grow up. The trend now is for more prominent sites to be commercialized. A Manhattan entrepreneur named Nick Denton runs a small stable of bloggers as a business by selling advertising on their sites. So far they aren't showing detectible signs of editorial corruption by their corporate masters--two of Denton's blogs, gawker.com and wonkette.com are among the most corrosively witty sites on the Web--but they've lost their amateur status forever...