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...percent of all rural Africans live more than a 30-minute walk from the nearest all-weather road, so when seasonal rains are good, surplus production cannot be moved easily for sale in another district at a higher price. Even worse for these true Locavores, when the crops fail in a drought, food supplies from nearby surplus regions cannot be brought...
...members of the Class of 2009, whether wannabe journalists or not, failure has become the new success. “The dirty secret is out. Harvard students fail sometimes,” The Boston Globe told us this April, breaking the story wide open...
Based on cognitive-behavioral-therapy techniques, Vincent's virtual therapy combines videos, text and audio clips to teach the sleepless everything about good sleep hygiene, from how to relax the body before getting into bed to how not to stress out when you fail to doze off right away. (One of the worst things you can do when you can't fall asleep is lie there and dwell on the consequences of not getting enough sleep.) Participants in her study were asked to keep digital sleep diaries and practice the techniques that were demonstrated onscreen. They were also allowed...
...poorest of these folks is worth more than $100 million, and half are billionaires. Does money buy happiness? Well, yes, Jones reports: "RMITs love the lives they have created for themselves." He crunches the numbers and gives his advice about joining the lite club ("Get Addicted to Ambition," "Fail to Succeed"). But most important, keep...
...sports, it is often difficult to measure progress, especially when numbers fail to provide much insight. For the Harvard baseball team, which went 10-30 last year with an 8-12 Ivy League record, this season did not present much of a contrast statistically, but consistent observers of the Crimson would likely attest to the team’s improvement.Harvard finished its 2009 campaign at 13-28, going 10-10 in conference play, in large part due to an injury-ravaged pitching staff that forced the Crimson to rely heavily on untested freshmen and sophomores. But Harvard also took steps...