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...potential is extraordinary as long as they don’t sacrifice long-term growth for the short-term,” she said...
...spent hours a day whittling his Rubix solving time down to 12 seconds. Fame aside, Andy praises the cube for improving his academic abilities considerably. “Solving the cube improves your spatial solving ability,” he says. “It improved both my short-term and long-term memory...
Global Volunteers is one of the oldest nonsectarian organizations to offer short-term "volunteer vacations." Kenny and Jackie Slutsky booked a two-week family trip to Carnitas, a small village in Costa Rica, where their team of 14 volunteers worked alongside a team of 14 locals to build a town recreation center. The work was physically demanding, but the whole family agrees that it's been their best vacation. "It's very rewarding to see something rise out of nothing," says Kenny, "and it was wonderful to see our kids be so nurturing to the local children--and be nurtured...
...starting to embrace on-the-ground economic development in the form of microfinance. Over the past three decades, the practice of lending as little as $50 to poor, self-employed individuals, the vast majority of them women, has proved its sustainability through near perfect repayment rates. Plus, the short-term loans turn over several times a year, lifting tortilla makers in Mexico and basket weavers in Benin out of poverty along the way. With 3 billion people living on less than $2 a day, there's a huge market for this kind of seed capital. And although microfinance institutions (MFIs...
...committee, which has about 12 concentrators per year, is planning several short-term changes, but further expansion will be dependent upon receiving more money and faculty, Najmabadi said after the meeting...