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Learning to Change. Sometimes young people have been so deprived of positive activities that they need coaching when they are about to enter unfamiliar work environments. In Las Vegas, Jocelyn Oats, youth coordinator at the Nevada Partners program, starts sessions by having everyone fold a napkin. "When they are done, they see that everyone folds them differently," she says. "I make them do this so they will understand that their employer may want them to do things differently than they are used...
...peer pressure a problem, says his girlfriend Raina Hedglin: "I don't know anyone who could influence him." At his funeral, friends and family buried a large jar of Jif peanut butter and a pack of instant pudding with him; they were his favorite foods. Hedglin dropped in a napkin she had saved from their prom...
...added that she wanted the conference to produce many innovative and impromptu ideas--those which she described as worthy of jotting down on a napkin in a college diner. "I hope this will be a meeting that would produce a lot of napkins," she said...
Somehow, Veritas now means much more to me than a design associated with my morning cup of orange juice, my muffin-containing napkin and an imposing iron gate. An elite university should serve as more than a mere playground for the mind--it should forward the pursuit of truth. Without the shared assumptions that constitute the truth at any given point in human history, assumptions about the nature of common human experience, we are each reduced to an isolated clump of matter, Lacking any basis for communicatio with others. Muhammad's call for a new look at learning...
...lone day in December. If I stopped teasing her, and if she stopped having the opportunity to look shocked and get sympathy, that would simply mean that every other day of the year I MEANT what I was saying, that I was really wiping my mouth on her napkin and really meant it when I didn't want to sit next to her at the House Grill...