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...Instead, on that day, the fiery Iranian leader muted his tone and appealed for dialogue with the West, evidently hoping to stave off a second U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions over Iran's failure to heed its demand to suspend uranium-enrichment activities. But on March 24, the Security Council unanimously voted to expand the sanctions, and now Tehran has reverted to defiance...
...hope of the staff of scaring the kids straight. The large number of these students implied a failure in America’s youth prevention programs. Despite naming schools after and erecting monuments for notable assassinated politicians, within some communities children don’t heed the warning and latch onto the glamorized image of politicians offered by television, movies, and especially video games. Real life encounters with actual politicians succeeds where state-mandated prevention programs of teaching civics and history in schools fail. Students leave knowing that government concentrations, debate teams, and The Washington Post aren?...
...which he called refreshing. "Both science and religion can be very much perverted by ideological beliefs. Both need to be purified," said Taylor, who on Wednesday was awarded the $1.5 million Templeton Prize for a career spent arguing that fields such as history, politics and economics pay too little heed to spirituality as a real force in people's lives...
Some feel the calling early but heed it only later. Josh Ruxin, a doctor's son from Ridgefield, Conn., traveled at 17 to study development projects in Ethiopia with a school group. "That changed the rest of my life," says Ruxin, 36. "I couldn't believe that people so desperately poor were living on the same planet as we were." After earning a doctorate at University College London in medical history, he joined the Monitor Group, a management consultancy in Cambridge, Mass. "There's a dearth of management skills in nonprofits," he says, explaining that choice. When some colleagues broke...
This definition makes risk crucial to setting and understanding prices in financial markets. But we humans aren't so great at gauging risk. We pay too much heed to the recent past. We obsess over gruesome possible outcomes while ignoring the mundane but dangerous. And we often cannot envision what will happen next...