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...difficult to seem dangerous, of course; sometimes manufacturers earn their menacing rep rightly. There's nothing inherently scary about names like Morris or Philip, but flip them around and stick them together, and pretty soon you're thinking about lung cancer. The Altria Group, on the other hand - which is the new corporate handle by which Philip Morris prefers to be known - means nothing at all, and that is precisely the idea...
Personality development, on the other hand, is not about conformity. Differences in personality don't go away during childhood and adolescence - they may even widen. Explaining why this happens, and why even identical twins reared in the same home have different personalities, is a challenge...
...stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground when the wintry winds below, and the snow drives fiercely, if only he can be by his master’s side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer, he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince...
...years on the trail, it is this. Grave threats require swift action and dauntless courage, as my recent actions have demonstrated. But the path to victory often lies in persuasion of another kind, and any knight worth his armor must fight with his mind as much as with his hand. These enchanters will not be driven out until we have good schools to educate children in the virtues of valor and grace; good doctors to keep bodies fit for work, whether this be threshing the fields or engaging in knight errantry; and good technology to keep our shores green...
...With the number of poor growing and reports of some going hungry, communist officials in Hanoi recently decided to hand out $12 to millions of impoverished Vietnamese on the eve of the nation's most important celebration, Tet, the Vietnamese New Year. Tet is Vietnam's equivalent of Christmas; it's a holiday of family gatherings and lavish spending on gifts. But this year, a time for giving turned out to be a time for taking. It appears that many of the cash handouts were pocketed by corrupt local officials.(See pictures from the 1979 border war between Vietnam...