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...It’s a terrible idea,” my mother said...
...Europe,” said one blockmate. We’re all pretty lazy, so nobody took it too seriously. “Europe is an even worse idea,” said my mother, whom I like to scare with stupid ideas anyway...
...speech. He spoke of a world in which Pharaoh and his armies no longer existed. He envisioned that in the not so distant future we would attain a world whose citizens enjoyed “freedom from want”—a world in which a mother would never have to choose between taking her child to the doctor and feeding her family for a week; a world in which a father would never have to sacrifice his daughter’s education to be able to provide for his family...
...Then one day Ethan's mother made him a bold offer. If he could go a full month without watching any TV, she would give him $200. None of us thought he could do it. But Ethan quit TV, just like that. His friends offered to let him cheat at their houses on Friday nights (Miami Vice nights!). Ethan said...
...results of the trial's first stage in India have been a testament to the influence of the easy, intimate get-together, more intuitive to many young mothers-to-be than one-on-one encounters with unfamiliar healthcare professionals. The neonatal mortality rate in the intervention areas, according to the data collected, dropped by a whopping 47% by the project's end in 2008. The entire three years cost organizers just $300,000, and participation rates increased from one in six women of childbearing age in the first year to more than half in the third. Sebati Thakur...