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...this is something you might not understand right away. It took me a long time to figure it out myself." So mused Robin Engel, who left New York City for Indonesia nearly a decade ago to head what he calls the Sailing Fleet of Indonesia, a loose association of traditional sailing-craft aficionados who ply the archipelago's waters for both pleasure and business. Engel, staring out at the moonlight reflecting off the calm waters of the Banda Sea, paused and took a pull from his cigarette before continuing to speak. "You could get yourself a boat...
...with his foreign-born wife, while Adams' supporters called Jackson's mother a whore." Consider bringing such trivia to an Independence Day barbecue as a sort of hostess gift. I think we've all attended get-togethers over the last few months where the conversation devolves into a round robin of each person's imagined death scenarios and everyone leaves early to go stock up on canned goods and gas masks. The amateur historian, on the other hand, can steer concerns about government decision-making into more cheerful areas, such as the War of 1812, which "U.S. History for Dummies...
Breakdown: Will touch your heart-and crush it like Robin Williams' career
...agrees that the incidence of fibbing is up, nobody agrees why. Employers find that applicants tend to lie more when the economy turns south and jobs grow scarce. The real predictor of who will stretch the truth, however, is not underlying work circumstances but underlying personality. According to psychologist Robin Inwald, head of New York City-based Hilson Research, which sells psychological testing to corporations, almost all job applicants score high on what is known as the guardedness scale--the degree to which they are determined to make a good impression on a potential employer...
...CAPTAINS Robin Lockwood...