Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this good news about teens raises an old question: Should we now be prepared to reward them with more rights? A new book by a prominent psychologist says we should. In fact, Robert Epstein, Harvard Ph.D., former editor in chief of Psychology Today and host of Sirius' Psyched! program, argues that we should abolish the very concept of adolescence. He's not alone: in 2004, Oxford University Press published The End of Adolescence, by psychiatrist Philip Graham, who argued that British teens deserved more respect and less condescension from adults. But Epstein's book, The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering...
...that precocious teens could take in order to vote. Kids who start businesses should also be able to own them outright. But kids have been making better decisions in the past 20 years--drinking and drugging less and, as studies have shown, studying more. It would be perverse to reward them by saying that we now don't care if they get drunk and watch porn instead...
Miss Kendrick came ready, with props. The day's topic was the Gospel of Matthew. "You can divide all the Beatitudes into two parts," Jennifer Kendrick explained to her teenage audience. "The 'Blessed are the whatevers,' like 'the meek,' and then the reward they will get. So I've made some puzzle pieces here." She passed out construction-paper sheets, each bearing either the name of a virtuous group or its reward, in black marker. "And you've got to find the person who has the other half. What's the first one in the Bible...
...died of a rare blood disease in 1990, the trophy recognizes outstanding play in Division I women’s hockey as well as sportsmanship, performance in the clutch, personal character, academic achievement, civic involvement and a love of hockey.In other words, the Kazmaier seeks not only to reward performance in the world of women’s hockey but also in the community at large—an area in which Chu, a volunteer at the UniLu homeless shelter and active member of the Women’s Sports Foundation, has definitely made a difference.“Julie...
...proposed visionary plans to address energy security and human rights policy. Breaking through the dearth of initiative among politicians tied to special interests, her $50-billion Strategic Energy Fund will incentivize the development of clean coal plants and efficient ethanol plants, make hybrid vehicles more affordable through tax breaks, reward home and small business owners for increasing efficiency, and heavily invest in groundbreaking research. Blending pragmatism with an embracing, hopeful worldview, Hillary will jumpstart America's moribund energy policy by addressing the threats posed by both global warming and hostile Middle East regimes. Other candidates have called for an immediate...