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...many of the players who have been through horrific accidents, membership in the North American organization or its British-based counterpart, the Society of One-Armed Golfers, is therapeutic. "You don't feel like you're on the outside," says Lusk, whose accident left him very depressed. "You come here, hell, everyone has arms missing. It's rehab as much as anything else...
...most important formative years. Such an antique administrator telling real, live undergraduates that they can’t use Harvard’s money to pay for other, underage, undergraduates’ alcohol is flabbergasting. “Perhaps this might be acceptable in other less principled societies, where membership does not require a commitment to logic and reason in the spirit of open inquiry,” the UC Executive posits in its memorandum. “In our University community the standard is higher; we demand decision through discussion, and finality through debate.”Imagine...
...That's great news should I find the need to recruit members for a support group - with the U.S. population exceeding 300 million (I'm not sure exactly how many are under the age of 12, but 79.7% of Americans are older than 14), that gives me a potential membership of about 100 million for a computer-television addiction group, should the need arise. While we don't know exactly what these online television viewers are doing while watching their favorite shows, Internet usage data tells us that there are great opportunities for television programs to create interactive content...
...Tokyo or Paris, that old-timey expatriate still sips his midday martini at the foreigners' club. But in the rough-and-tumble markets of China and India, a new generation of expats--they prefer "global executives," thank you--haven't yet had a chance to sign up for membership. They're too busy chasing local talent, adapting to a wildly different culture and riding phenomenal growth in markets vital to their companies' futures. And when they get back to the U.S., make no mistake, they'll jump the queue to the corner office...
...Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, researches how cells and their connections in the brain become specialized. At the center, he directs a group of independent scientists as they map neurocircuits and investigate what he calls “the big intellectual question of this century.” Membership honors individual achievement, but some inductees said that their success depended on the help of others. “Our work is always built on that of our peers,” another inductee, Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean Venkatesh Narayanamurti said. “Without that network of help...