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Coming up with enough money for college these days often seems like a losing battle, but now cash-strapped students have a little more firepower in their arsenal. The Army just raised the maximum benefits that qualified specialists can receive under the Montgomery G.I. Bill plus the Army College Fund, to $50,000 from $40,000. And if that's not enough incentive, most of those who enlist by May next year will also be eligible for an immediate $3,000 signing bonus...
...these four share common traits other than their leadership and superb business acumen? Yes. They were curious folks and hence lifelong learners. And they paid attention to people, realizing that the potential of any enterprise hinged on giving subordinates the maximum opportunity to succeed. Even in the 21st century, these characteristics will still be required of great managers...
...also enjoys the excursion into another culture. "It opens you up to a lot of things--Chinese martial arts, medicine and Chinese painting," she says. "There's a whole way of looking at things that is so different from ours." Cunneen suggests sampling the full range to gain the maximum benefit. "Qi Gong is more than just movement," she says. "It's an attitude toward life and a way of eating and taking care of one's health. These balanced ways of living feed one another...
...Chicago, marathoner Tom Smithburg works out daily and, in place of morning coffee, downs a megadose of ginseng: 1,000 mg, vs. the recommended maximum of 600 mg. "Coffee is a drug," says Smithburg, a public relations representative of the Chicago Bulls. "I hear more people complaining that they have headaches over the weekend from not getting their caffeine...
...which regulates indoor volleyball, is tired of being the dowdy sister to beach volleyball. The federation's new uniform standards went into effect this month. Women's shirts "must follow the body line," say the regulations. And women's shorts "must be tight in waist and length," with a maximum inseam of 5 cm and "cut in at least a 30[degrees] angle toward the top of the leg." No ruling on tans...