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...teaching kids how to be smart about gambling to parents. "We know that poker comes along with a lot of bad habits, but so do a lot of other things," says Cindi Williams, whose son Jeff, 20, began playing poker in high school by holding regular games around the pool table in the family basement in Atlanta. Her strategy, she says, was to talk to Jeff about the risks and always make him play with his own money so that he stayed within a budget. Under those rules, she says, Jeff and his friends developed the ability to size...
...talons opened like forceps, locked on to items and could pick a dime off the floor. Occasionally I screwed on a plastic, clawlike device known by the German word for grabber--Greifer--to move heavy objects, and I contemplated the long list of attachments--garden tools, spatulas, hammers and pool-shooting bridges--that were available by special order. I usually sported the hook, however, even if it aroused more fear than friendship among people I passed on the street. Some kids cowered. Friends accepted it and greeted me with a high-two. Rebekah, who had agreed to marry me several...
...month and a half that regular decision provides (including a winter break period) will allow students who had not considered college an option before more time to think about their future and plan accordingly. Early admissions undoubtedly “advantaged the advantaged.” With two separate pools and two separate acceptance rates—21 percent early and nine percent regular—there was a much higher chance of succeeding in Harvard’s early action pool. High school counselors who knew this would advise their students to join the “easier?...
...employers, internships provide a pool of raw but talented labor from which they can cherry-pick the best and brightest. Among college interns, 90% report job offers from their employers, says CareerExposure.com. Employers rank students' internships and job experiences above grade-point averages in hiring - not surprising in an era when companies from Lockheed Martin to NASA have to engage etiquette trainers to teach new hires just how to shake hands...
...creator of a computer program that can read radiation from 400,000 years after the Big Bang. This year, Harvard is the only university to host more than a single “genius grant” honoree. According to Gawande, the MacArthur nominators had quite a pool of Harvard academics to choose from. “I can think of about 20 people who deserve it just from this neighborhood,” said Gawande. The MacArthur Fellowship program has gained much prestige since its inception in 1981. Past winners include Harold Bloom, Twyla Tharp, World Wide Web inventor...