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...HELLO FM FM10543: Talk about how you came up with anthropology RingMyBell: I CAME UP WITH IT IN 1776 WHEN I WAS PEOPLE WATCHING AT A PUBLIC PARK FM10543: people, as in, “anthropology” RingMyBell: YES “ANTHRO” IS THE GREEK ROOT FOR “PEOPLE” SO WHEN THE IDEA STRUCK ME TO INVENT IT THE NAME FOLLOWED PRETTY NATURALLY FM10543: hm so you are 1000 years old RingMyBell: ... FM10543: ... RingMyBell: I AM THE FIRST ANTHROPOLOGIST FM10543: ... RingMyBell: YES I AM 1000 FM10543: you mentioned the year 1943 RingMyBell...
...been working overtime to catch the scammers. Flush with funding to root out nonprofits connected to terrorism and given a new institutional mandate to do a tougher job, its Exempt Organizations Division has added 160 auditors over the past two years. Since August 2004, according to Mark Everson, commissioner of the IRS, the agency has contacted 1,240 organizations with questions about how they pay their executives. So far, 719 returns have come under audit for suspicious accounting. State regulators, who have traditionally policed nonprofits, are pushing for new laws. The House and Senate held hearings this summer on nonprofit...
...that discipline can be hard to come by, especially when the root cause of the problem is not exactly clear...
...failed my classes in a rather spectacular way,” reflects Eric. “It takes some effort to fail three classes.” Eric’s descent into depression was at the root of his difficulties. “Beyond a certain point, it’s just numbness, nothingness, not being able to think of a reason to get out of bed, to eat something.” Harvard’s environment didn’t help...
...world's policy makers need to take these risks far more seriously. Washington needs to be more attentive to the root causes of America's massive current-account deficit: an unprecedented shortfall of domestic saving brought on by open-ended budget deficits and a lack of personal saving. A protectionist remedy for America's homegrown problems would be a policy blunder of monumental proportions?taking the world down a very slippery and dangerous slope...