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...think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eat, Pray, Love Author Elizabeth Gilbert | 1/4/2010 | See Source »

Chess has had prodigies, most notably Paul Morphy and Bobby Fischer, who have been lost to madness. Do you fear that trying to master a game of near-infinite variation can make you insane? It's too hard to predict the future, but right now I don?t see myself going mad. It's easy to get obsessed with chess. That's what happened with Fischer and Morphy. I don't have the same obsession. I love the game, and I love to compete, but I am not obsessed with the struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magnus Carlsen: The 19-Year-Old King of Chess | 12/25/2009 | See Source »

Byrne said that children’s values and beliefs could also predict resistance to attempts from their parents to protect them on the internet. The strategies resulting in the least amount of disagreement were the most effective because they empowered the youth to protect themselves while providing legal or academic consequences for online misconduct...

Author: By Barbara B. Depena, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cyber Safety Expert Visits | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

Stephanopoulos had asked Summers, who is President Obama's top economic adviser, whether his views were in line with those of some private economists, who predict a likely increase in unemployment over the next couple of months despite the unemployment drop we experienced in November...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: If Larry Summers Says the Recession is Over, Then It Must Be True | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...striking that Lam’s friends, teachers, and family members confidently predict that she will someday become President of the United States. According to Martha L. Brown,  Lam’s mother, her inbox was filled with congratulations to the future President following news of Lam’s Rhodes Scholarship. “She doesn’t take herself terribly seriously,” she says. “She’s an excellent listener, a diplomatic person, and is just really well-liked...

Author: By Samantha L. Connolly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Most Interesting Seniors 2010: Eva Z. Lam | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

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