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...enfolding embrace of Asian culture makes it appealing to parents. Yet it can also be scary. I brought my kids to Asia because I wanted them to learn to trust people. At the same time, as my daughters grow up, I need to teach them to spot suspect behavior, especially that which is sexual in nature...
...boon. What if it fuels corruption rather than development, and creates the same combustible mix of great wealth, relative poverty, grievance and instability as it has in the Middle East? Economists often talk of the "curse of oil," pointing out that countries with resources such as oil often grow more slowly, more corruptly, less equitably, more violently and with more authoritarian governments than others do. The authors of Escaping the Resource Curse - Jeffrey Sachs, Joseph Stiglitz and Macartan Humphreys - assert that there is "a strong association between resource wealth and the likelihood of weak democratic development, corruption and civil...
...center to the company's San Francisco facility at a cost of several thousand dollars (Krtolica declined to provide an exact figure, citing ongoing talks with a few IVF clinics). There scientists thaw and nurture the embryos to generate stem cells. These are then removed, cultured and allowed to grow. The surviving colonies are then frozen and kept cryopreserved in liquid nitrogen in StemLifeLine's own freezers on the premises. (The company charges about $350 per year to keep the cells in deep freeze...
...days of Cannes so far, and 10 days of radiant sunshine. Is this a meteorological record? How do the gorgeous tomatoes grow in the South of France without rain? Yet just this afternoon, the weather turned from hot and sunny to cool and breezy; now the skies are as gray as the palette in an Eastern European minidrama. The change went unnoticed by many festivalgoers, because they're gone; just one week of this 12-day bash is enough for them. Still, there are enough lifers who stick it out - for Cannes is a storyline that's not resolved until...
...straight A’s, I am still very happy with my academic experience here. I try keep to keep things in perspective, and learn for learning’s sake. After all, written above the gate entering Harvard Yard is the phrase “Enter to grow in wisdom,” not “Enter to get easy A’s and a kick-ass job after you graduate.” I may not have aced all of my classes, but I am confident that I have grown in wisdom. In high school...