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...dinosaurs may have been dominated by dinosaurs, but they certainly weren't the only fearsome creatures around. A series of remarkable discoveries from a team led by Paul Sereno, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago and a National Geographic explorer-in-residence, has made it clear that another, less celebrated group of animals lived alongside the dinos, and sometimes even dined on those better-known cousins...
Over time the Bauhaus faculty would include some enduring names in 20th century art and design, including Josef and Anni Albers, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. They were all in their different ways ardent modernists, but in its first years the school was caught in a contradiction: a romance with individual craftsmanship at odds with the modernist ideal of mass production. Even the name Bauhaus (House for Building) carried echoes of Bauhütten, the shared lodgings of the medieval craftsmen who built the great cathedrals. As for the painters connected to the Bauhaus, whatever systems and principles Klee and Kandinsky...
Yinghua's student body, once 70% Asian, is now 50% white, black or Hispanic. The school has more than tripled its enrollment, to 300 kids, many of whom commute an hour each way. When parents Paul and Tess DeGeest moved back to Minneapolis from Washington, they wanted their daughter Audrey to progress beyond their own "lovely but Wonder-bread" upbringing. "Why would you not give your child an opportunity like this?" asks Paul. "It's another arrow in the quiver for her that most people will never have...
USAGE: "[Former bank CEO Paul] Joegriner is a member of what might be called the severance economy--unemployed Americans who use severance pay and savings to maintain their lifestyles...
...Skeptics claim that statistics such as these are biased in favor of equities because they are derived solely from long-term U.S. data. But the excellent historical returns of stocks are not limited to the U.S. Three U.K. economists - Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton - have examined the historical stock and bond returns from 16 countries since 1901 and published their research in a book entitled Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns. Despite wars, bouts of hyperinflation and depressions, stock investors in all 16 countries examined enjoyed high returns that outpaced fixed-income assets...