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...education into the hinterland, where the schools reduced the curriculum to communist rote. Before he left, his father told him that no matter what the risk, "you need to learn." So, after 16 hours in the field each day, Dong stole away at night with a kerosene lamp to pore over two math and physics books his father had salvaged for him. Eventually the authorities caught on to Dong's reading, but since he disguised his books to resemble Mao's Little Red Book, they praised his party fervor. That reputation gave him the rare chance to attend college, leave...
...Gabe Mirkin and Marshall Hoffman) and serves it all up with a commonsensical approach that stresses his four Ds: decision, determination, discipline and diligence. His unballyhooed fifth D, of course, is deference. He ministers to egos as deftly as to flesh, and he is sympathetic to the open-pore scrutiny and pressures faced by performers. "They are subject to more criticism than they were ten years ago," notes Isaacson...
Once Evans graduated from the academy and joined the force 25 years ago, he rose through the ranks quickly with intense studying. For six months before each promotion, he would pore over books day and night, neglecting his family to prepare for the exam. The exam score alone determines who gets the spot...
...result, I have become the environmental movement's dream convert. I pore over news reports of the latest oil-company atrocity; I hector my family about their oversize vehicles; I buy only organic milk and eggs laid by vegetarian, cage-free, anxiety-free chickens; and I'm an easy mark for any ecoactivist in search of a signature on his petition...
...Anders Fogh Rasmussen once called the "the coolest in N?rrebro." Politicians aren't normally arbiters of hip, but with the Laundromat Caf?, tel: (45) 3535 2672, Rasmussen might be right. In a colorful setting of red lamps, red booths and coffee-colored walls, you can wash your clothes or pore over any of 4,000 secondhand books on sale. Icelandic owner Fridrik Weisshappel J?nsson says people have warmed to the concept "because modern-city living places importance on saving time, and here they can have lunch and do a daily chore...