Word: idea
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...prizes with different completion deadlines running at the same time. Challenges would be created to address short-term problems or disasters that strike without warning, or long-standing issues that afflict scores of people around the world. In that sense, HarvardforHumanity serves as both a community service idea engine and a global problem solver. Thus, the point is not that the best ideas come from Harvard internally. It is that although good ideas may come from outside Harvard’s campus, it is Harvard that sees their potential and gives them a chance to grow...
...worst is a laundry list of misadventures that I can only imagine. I spent a lot of time and I asked a lot of people, sometimes very brazenly. I had some immense strokes of luck - I met some key people for whom it probably wasn't a very good idea to take me in. It can be an impenetrable world. I read most of the moonshine literature available, and I've only found one other journalist who has been taken into an operating still site...
...read a lot of this book on the subway and sometimes felt like I had to conceal the cover because I didn't want people to think I was plotting something. (Laughs.) I had the idea for a handbook of poisons in my head from the beginning. Poisoners are fascinating - they are the scariest killers because they are so cold at heart. What they do is premeditated: they plan, they plot and they wait. To me, they are the most amoral of all killers...
...well with the activist elements of the protest movement that has shaken Iran since the controversial re-election of Ahmadinejad last June. But Rafsanjani also pointed out the divisions within the society and the need to not only acknowledge but compromise on some of those differences - an idea that his conservative compatriots in the theocracy are loath to consider...
...What does your son eat for lunch?" the woman asked after I ran in breathless. I had no idea what to say. When my son started nursery school last September at the age of 3, I had registered him for the school lunch program. But when he failed to appear in the lunchroom after that, city officials quickly took notice. My explanation - that I thought he should take a break and eat lunch at home in the middle of the day - was apparently not sufficient. This was personal. (See 10 things to do in Paris...