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...worst forms happen during the early teen years, just when most youths stop talking to their elders. "Young people can be very secretive," says Gerard McAleavy, an education professor at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. "It's part of their struggle to construct their own identity." Peter Niebling, headmaster of a high school in Hanover, suggests the trend toward smaller families may play a role. "Many children have no siblings and thus don't know how to interact and coexist with their peers in school," he says...
...accomplish a simple but crucial task: getting bodies into the store. Tesco's British grocery market share rose to an estimated 22.9% in 2004, as onetime leader Sainsbury's stagnated at 12.1%, according to Verdict Research in London. "They don't do anything brilliantly, but they do everything well," Peter East, retail director of market-research firm TNS in London, says of Tesco...
After the hour-long library discussion ended, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science (GSAS) Peter T. Ellison gave the Faculty a progress report on his goal of funding all of the approxinately 130 applications for Ph.D-completion fellowships his school receives each year, saying that he still needs money for 17 of them...
...made a mistake and I deeply regret any unintended harm,” wrote Lopez-de- Silanes in a statement released to The Crimson by his lawyer, Peter E. Fleming III. “I am leaving Yale because it is the right thing to do for the Institute and all concerned...
...Fashionistas are still gushing and cooing over Chanel Ginza?the French fashion house's brand-new showcase in the heart of Tokyo's ritziest shopping district. But what truly sets this building apart, besides the bold, Peter Marino design, is its 10th-story penthouse, the newest home of restaurateur Alain Ducasse, pictured above with his team of chefs. The youngest person ever to be awarded three Michelin stars?and the only one of his generation to receive the same accolade for two restaurants at the same time?Ducasse was handpicked by Chanel Japan president Richard Collasse to create "a contemporary...