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Solving puzzles makes you a better person. You learn flexibility of thinking, and you learn to think practically. I think Mr. Miyamoto has a point: often in math class, you're taught formulas and maybe you don't fully understand the formulas, you're just going through the paces, these artificial things you've learned. But when you finish a puzzle, you really have a complete understanding of what you did. You understand the mathematics better, and you feel prouder of yourself for having figured it out from start to finish...
...futures. It is one thing to see a neighbor lose a home. It is another to see companies which have been at the heart of the American business world fall apart in a matter of months. The effect of watching titans fail is as traumatic to the average person as the loss of his own job. Another job will come along, at some point. Citigroup will never come back...
...time." But it's an investment that self-propagates. Once the nurses have educated new moms, says Ballard, the mothers start educating one another. "It's so neat to watch," she says. "We give information to our clients, and they share with neighbors. One client was the go-to person for everything. She'd say, 'Talking to your babies makes them smart.' And the other moms would always come...
...terminally ill people, giving them information about suicide if they request it. If an individual decides to proceed after reading that information - which includes a passage on committing suicide by helium inhalation - a member of the network will be present, but only to hold that would-be suicidal person's hand as he or she proceeds with ending life...
...financial justification for the fee is weak at best. Certainly, the cost of processing an add/drop form is nowhere near $10 per person. Moreover, it is unlikely that it costs nothing to process a schedule on the third Monday of a term but $10 to do so on the third Tuesday. Even supposing the administrative burden were that expensive, the College should draw this fee from the $32,000 in tuition it has already extracted from each student, presumably for such academic purposes...