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...There is a strong sense in Utah of the inside [the Mormon faith] and the outside," says the writer Tempest Williams. "The vitality of this state is right along that border-the place of greatest reward, but also the place of greatest risk." That is where the plot is still being written. Like all David Lynch movies, it will have many strange twists before...
...feel better about the lessons we are teaching our students—and the nation—if Harvard did more to value and reward all the work that helps to make it “great,” not just the intellectual work that has helped to inspire so many of us to see the injustices before us and to speak out against them until “Fair Harvard” is just that...
...tooth and a salty one, but they have to learn to enjoy other tastes. They often need repeated introductions to such healthy fare as beans and other veggies. Using dessert to bribe kids into eating nutritious food can backfire, says Birch. "If kids are given one food as a reward, they will learn to prefer that food," she says--and they will learn to feed the vegetables...
...lose the miles. These days, points or miles collected on a credit card can be used to pay for everything from round-trip plane tickets to college tuition (on Citibank's Upromise card) to your teen's braces (on Diner's Club, which lets you choose a reward once you hit 100,000 points). Chase allows you to earn Continental Airline miles by using your debit card, but at a rate of half a mile per dollar spent--vs. one mile on the typical credit card...
...there a reward for the capture of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar? No one seems quite sure. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced on Dec. 13 that Washington planned to offer $10 million for Omar's capture, to go along with the $25 million dangled for nabbing Osama bin Laden. But Rumsfeld didn't consult ahead of time with the State Department--which runs the rewards program and decides which evildoers warrant a price tag on their head--and a reward had not been approved. It still hasn't. "You just can't create these rewards on your own," says...