Word: grown
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...weeks from now.) If you can avoid an $89 splurge every two weeks for the foreseeable future and you put the money (tax deferred) in the market where it earns an 8% return, your financial future would look an awful lot brighter. At 8%, those $89 investments will have grown after 20 years...
...team leader for an apprenticeship examining women’s physical and mental health. She says that many of the students at her high school who did not participate in Citizen Schools are lacking in the skills that she developed through the program. Since its establishment, the organization has grown to serve 3,000 students and has branched out to 30 programs in five states, according to Colin S. Stokes, marketing and communications manager for Citizen Schools.Stokes says the organization has ambitions of growing to 80 program sites in 40 communities by 2010.“We are all passionate...
...while the paycheck for Harvard’s president has grown considerably in recent years, it’s still substantially lower than the pay given to other Ivy League leaders. The presidents of Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Brown, Cornell, Yale, and Princeton all earned more than Harvard’s chief in 2004-2005, according to the Chronicle’s annual report on presidential salaries released last week...
...artist, drinking tea and dolefully declaring, "You think I'm happy, but I'm not. I'm totally miserable." But Eno, art-rocker turned producer turned ambient-music pioneer and all-round creative omnipresence in contemporary culture, is fibbing. At times, he wears the look of a visionary grown weary of waiting for the world to catch up with the future he has so long been inhabiting. Truth is, most of the time Eno can't stop smiling at the thought that that moment may finally be upon us. Behind him on a giant wall-mounted plasma screen...
Part of the problem we have with evaluating risk, scientists say, is that we're moving through the modern world with what is, in many respects, a prehistoric brain. We may think we've grown accustomed to living in a predator-free environment in which most of the dangers of the wild have been driven away or fenced off, but our central nervous system--evolving at a glacial pace--hasn't got the message...