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Travel to exotic regions of the world 52% Own a business 25% Learn a new language 23% Go back to school 21% Learn to play a musical instrument 18% Buy a motorcycle or sports...
...jailed and tortured for his activities, and on his release he found work at Radio Haiti. Two years later, he bought the station. Jean's mission was to harness the power of the airwaves as an instrument of social change. He introduced two ingredients to his country's broadcast stew. He brought Creole, the language of the uneducated population, where only French, the language of the elite, had been heard. And with this came news. Real news. In Jean's words, "People decipher the foreign news and digest it in their own culture. For them, information--this became their life...
Lynching was a form of terror, which is murder with a message to send. In the last decades of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th, when lynching became both a mass frenzy and a coolly purposeful instrument of white supremacy, you could send the message by postcard. Scores of mob murders were caught on film by newspapers, by studio photographers who set up at the scene and by onlookers who brought along a camera. Fifteen years ago, James Allen, an Atlanta antiques dealer, was inspecting an old desk. In one of the drawers, he came across...
...inspiring case study in following the cheese. Trained as a medical doctor at Britain's Royal College of Surgeons, he set out in his 20s to discover the underlying reasons for illness. His findings? Bad attitudes as much as bad germs. He deemed the pen a better healing instrument than the scalpel...
...veteran high school guidance counselor, says parents should appreciate the maturing process brought on by the skinny envelope. "We're trying to put kids in charge of their lives here, and we shouldn't undermine it with our own expectations. Besides," he notes, "college is too blunt an instrument to tell you who you are for the rest of your life...