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...start-up company” (i.e., lemonade stand). 6) Do business school and psych studies all summer long. Guaranteed $15 an hour. 7) Get some mileage out of that History of Art and Architecture coursework: Write a “Da Vinci Code” knock-off. 8) Put your online poker skills to the test: Go to Las Vegas and win your first million. Or lose next year’s tuition money. 9) Be like Leo in “The Departed” and join the family business—you don’t need...
SWAT teams—originally called "Special Weapons Attack Teams"—are designed to deal with special, highly dangerous threats such as hostage takings. These paramilitary raids are usually done in conjunction with a no-knock warrant, which gives the police the right to forcibly enter a private home without announcing themselves. Although these teams and tactics might be justified in very dangerous situations, the last time I checked the U.S. doesn’t have 137 daily hostage takings. Instead, as the numbers suggest, SWAT teams are used for routine police work, especially drug arrests...
...memo that recently became external. In this wistful missive, Schultz fretted that, because coffee is delivered in flavor-locked packaging, the atmosphere had changed, the romance evaporated; the Starbucks "experience" of baristas grinding beans, pulling expresso shots and hand-crafting beverages had been automated away by machines that can knock out an expresso with the press of a button...
...your QR textbook as a doorstop may be overwhelming, but resist! Chances are that your late-night visitor isn’t the cute senior from that party last weekend but instead someone who only loves you for one thing: your iPod. After all, Prince Charming knows to knock...
...What's really worrisome is that Beijing's impotence in this area reflects a similar inability to enforce its will on wayward local authorities in a whole range of crucial areas. If the central government can't stop the sale of Gucci knock-off handbags around the corner from its own enforcement office, how can they stop factories poisoning the drinking water tens of millions of its citizens depend on a thousand miles away? It's a scary thought for the Chinese and the outside world...