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...their high calcium content. And calcium supplements are flooding the market, with sales of liquids and pills surging from $18 million in 1980 to $240 million last year. Those who gag on the tablets, which are huge gullet pluggers, can even try getting their mineral boost in a novel way -- EZ-CAL Soft Calcium Whip, an aerosol can filled with calcium foam that was introduced in test markets last week. In short, just about anything consumable has been laced with the stuff...
...texts, concepts, and discoveries in the context of larger problems and themes in ways that provide students with an intellectual introduction to broad areas of knowledge and inquiry.” And as I looked at our traditional humanities offerings, with courses that include “The American Novel,” “The History of Modern Moral Philosophy,” “World Religions: Diversity and Dialogue,” “Asian Modernities,” “Opera,” and “Survey of World...
...worked in the past is not timid or backward thinking; engineers try to improve working systems by modifying them. In fact, radical design changes usually fail. Marketers always like to talk about bold innovations, but real businesses never offer radical inventions to consumers without testing them. They try out novel ideas on small groups and abandon most of them, rather than ostentatiously announcing them to the entire world as the way of the future.Understand a problem before you try to solve it. “Shaking things up”—making random changes to a system rather...
...million competition to launch a piloted spacecraft into space twice within two weeks in 2004—Kremer said they decided to create a company based on the same business model.“One of the big problems with ALS is that there are not a lot of novel treatment ideas coming from new places,” said Boaz.With the help of Daniel J. Isenberg, a senior lecturer who taught Kremer in his entrepreneurial course, Boaz and Kremer founded Prize4life, a nonprofit organization that will provide $10 million worth of rewards to ALS researchers.Boaz and Kremer will officially...
...mother.”Her real-world childhood would later influence her fiction, which examines the ambiguous relationships between mothers and daughters. For her English thesis, she examined what she calls the “dark side” of mother-daughter relationships in Jane Austen’s novels. But Randall discourages comparisons between her writing and her life.“The character Windsor Armstrong [from Randall’s second novel, “Pushkin and the Queen of Spades”] does attend Harvard University, and she does bear some similarities to aspects of my life...