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...suspect it takes more than that to account for OTD. I was reminded as I read that as you move through adolescence, your life gets so much bigger so fast; not just your hands and feet but your thoughts, temper, moods, doubts, and so all your relationships are vastly more complicated than in the days of playground tag. Melodrama comes so naturally: friendships dissolve into feuds, rivalries ripen, parents are useless, nothing goes according to plan, temptation is everywhere. These stories throw all that normal teenage drama into such high relief that the picture is suddenly clearer. The stakes...
...else is Ikea's strategy changing? We decided to reduce the pace of our expansion from 25 stores a year down to 15. We realized that expansion had gone a little too fast, and we needed to slow down for a while, for two or three years. And we are experimenting with bigger formats. We are now putting up our stores next to shopping centers, which we want to build ourselves...
...wonder how he felt today, when Google suddenly decided to start hanging ads on Google Finance, its financial news portal. It's already one-tenth the size of Yahoo! Finance, and growing fast...
Given the centrality and breadth that characterize HDRB, we do not doubt that it should qualify for concentration status. As human knowledge continues to expand and splinter, however, it will become increasingly important for the Faculty to hold fast to its liberal arts principles. Undergraduates at Harvard should specialize in a distinct and central field of study in the tradition of the liberal arts; they are not graduate students, postdocs, or researchers, and their experience should not be treated as such. Even as the face of science transforms, the core pedagogical values that have guided the College for well over...
...would buy bus fare for their children and hand them a sign that read "Take Me to Boys Town." Their counterparts today "are parents who have tried to navigate the system for years, and this is their last resort; these are parents who ran out of patience too darn fast and gave up too early, and everything in between," says Boes...