Word: parkes
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...Increasingly, so do investors, who are losing faith in hedge funds as a safe place to park their wealth during times of economic turmoil. Funds flourished earlier this decade by offering higher returns than investors could get in more conventional vehicles. Because they are largely unregulated, managers are free to employ a wide variety of sophisticated strategies, including short-selling (borrowing a stock and selling it in the hope of buying it later at a lower price to return to the original lender). The objective is to achieve - for hefty fees - consistent positive returns in good and bad markets...
...sound like a theme park, but the founders worked closely with education experts, including British creativity guru Sir Ken Robinson and UCLA's Daniel Siegel, to create the curriculum. Questions like HOW DO 4-YEAR-OLDS UNDERSTAND THE COLOR RED? are written on pieces of paper stuck to the classroom walls. Learning is to be provoked, not imposed. Teachers talk approvingly of "fun provocation going on in the 3s." Simko describes her job as leading students into a series of questions that will guide the curriculum. "It doesn't suit everybody," she says of the methodology, "but every school should...
...after he was elected as examples of how electronic media has been prominent in the Obama campaign. But now that the election has been decided, the focus is shifting from the campaign to the administration. “The Barack Obama who spoke at [Chicago’s] Grant Park on the night of the election was a different Barack Obama,” said Tom Vilsack, a former governor of Iowa who is rumored to be in the running for agriculture secretary. “It was an individual who realized that the weight of the world rested...
...mother is an expert in childhood development. Both parents, now in their 80s, still work in Chicago and live just two blocks from the Obamas' home in Hyde Park...
...Diane and Michael Maher Assistant Curatorship of American Art will be established through the generosity of Diane and Michael Maher of Winter Park, Florida...