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...taking advantage of the network effect. "The wonderful property of social networks is that they augment what you seed them with, so if you can seed a network with a smoking cessation program, you will get multiplicative power in getting results." When it comes to getting healthier as a nation, it may take a village after all - a well-connected...
...main focus? As a first-generation immigrant to the U.S. who proudly serves in the military, I have obtained several degrees (soon to include the Ph.D. I am currently working on) from several institutions. Though these academic centers may not be in the Top 10 in the nation, they have allowed me to succeed and placed me competitively alongside many of my colleagues. Placing hopes on any particular college is not a bad thing, but concentrating on what is to be learned is the main goal. Shouldn't we teach our children that hard work does pay off? Andres Munera...
...following the end of the cold war, one nation did not share in the festivities. Russia lost more than an empire - it lost its stature as a superpower. Indeed, Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has called the collapse of the Soviet Union "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century." During the cold war, Russia would celebrate Victory Day each year on May 9 by holding a parade to honor its triumph over the invading forces of Nazi Germany. Eager to flaunt its modern might, Moscow would showcase its intercontinental ballistic missiles, tanks would rumble past the Kremlin...
...whiff of news about the U.K.'s housing market is enough to make the front pages. When British TV channels aren't airing advice on buying or selling homes, they're offering lessons on how to do them up. "Domesticity," Emerson noted, "is the taproot which enables the nation to branch wide and high...
...staunch proponent of tighter immigration policies, the SVP says Switzerland naturalizes more foreigners than any other European nation, and official figures seem to support that claim. The party charges on its website that more than half of all citizenship requests - in 2006, approximately 50,000 were granted in this country of 7.5 million - go to immigrants from the Balkans and Turkey. The SVP claims those immigrants commit a disproportionate number of violent crimes and abuse Swiss social and welfare benefits. Some official statistics do attribute the rise in serious infractions to resident foreigners, but the numbers are not clear...