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...after nine months living in Harvard Yard, I, too, began to repeat the East Coast Mantra. I called home to talk with family and friends—and spent half of the conversation fixated on their glaring accents. I revised my reply to the inevitable “Where are you from?” inquiry. “Michigan,” I said. “But I want to live in New York.” I hardly lived up to the Puritan pedigree, but at least I was trying...
...well aware that reinvention is the mantra of our time, but how many times can you reinvent yourself before that self becomes tedious? Before the observer concludes, there's no there there? Before you lose touch with whatever made...
...These guys swallowed the get-big-fast mantra hook, line and sinker," says Ken Cassar, a senior analyst for Jupiter Media Metrix, a research and ratings firm. "They were too ambitious, but they couldn't have grabbed so much venture capital if they weren't. Investors were eyeing IPO riches." Not that either company was particularly frugal with the wealth Wall Street brought. Their combined bonfire consumed more than $860 million, not counting the undisclosed seven-figure sum Webvan paid the San Francisco Giants to sponsor all the cupholders at Pacific Bell Park...
...things are disturbing here. First, while this research did not become widely known until July 11, it had been reported to fellow scientists back in October. Yet for nine months, stem-cell advocates have been repeating the "only discarded embryos" mantra. What did they know, and when did they know it? Second, and equally disturbing, is the stem-cell supporters' response to the Norfolk research. John Gearhart, one of the original stem-cell pioneers, told the New York Times that he was "perplexed" by this development because "we don't think it's necessary...
...have "fun" in our working lives. Donkin reinforces these assertions by describing how employment and management theory have evolved since the Stone Age. He is especially persuasive about the re-engineering trend that scythed through middle management in the 1980s and '90s, turning shareholder value into the new corporate mantra and "temp" agencies into the largest private employers in the U.S. In Donkin's view, we are now at a stage where there is more work than ever, the work ethic remains deeply embedded in the Western psyche and our identities continue to be framed by who employs...