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...goal] put us in a hole,” Mazzoleni said. “But our kids didn’t quit and that’s a real positive sign...
...While Miyake may not be your classic Olympian, she's a poster girl for Japan's Generation Lost. A talented drifter, Miyake, 28, excelled in gymnastics as a child in Nara but quit. She later tried skiing but gave it up. And she took a break from her university studies in Chinese literature and went backpacking in New Zealand, where she happened to take a snowboarding course. She turned out to be pretty good at it. "I've always failed whenever I was hung up about winning," she says, "so I've decided to relax and take it easy...
Already known as outspoken, Watkins didn't want to approach Skilling directly for fear of losing her job, Hilder says. "She thought it would be fruitless while he was there." When Skilling suddenly quit on Aug. 14, Lay called an all-employees meeting two days later and asked for comments from workers beforehand. That's when Watkins finally sat down to write a one-page anonymous letter on her computer at work. She dropped it in the box at headquarters the next...
...HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION: In an HMO, you have to stay in network for your care to be covered. To boost profits, some HMOs push doctors into taking more patients than they can handle--so doctors tend to quit, harming continuity of care...
...influence the way their children eat and to lower the chances they will end up obese. Young children are keenly attuned to how many calories they need to grow and maintain a normal weight; they know when they are hungry and when they are full. But most kids quit listening to those internal cues by the time they reach school age. The reason? Parents, says Leann Birch, a psychologist at Penn State University. "There are things parents do with the best of intentions that turn out to be counterproductive," she says. A familiar example: insisting that children clean their plate...