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Adolescents who have personality traits that parents love--obedience, responsibility and self-confidence--tend to shun drugs through high school and adulthood, while rebellious, pessimistic youths often grow up to smoke, drink and use illegal substances, according to a 12-year study...
Those youngsters who shun alcohol, cigarettes and drugs through their early 20s tend to be law-abiding, self-sufficient and ambitious. They also like school and feel valued by their peers, teachers and other people...
...face of Gospel TV's theological simplifications and secular agendas, its sometimes overbearing personalities and unrelenting emphasis on money, should earnest Christians simply shun electronic religion altogether? To Hollywood's Ogilvie, that is not an option: "Otherwise we roll over and play dead." Jim Bakker sees video technology as the means to fulfill Jesus' 2,000- year-old injunction to reach out to the world and spread the Gospel. If Jesus were on earth today, Bakker asserts, "he'd have to be on TV. That would be the only way he could reach the people he loves...
...does Harvard routinely shun the input of those who will be affected by its decisions? Often, Harvard is simply afraid of hearing their suggestions. It's easier to rule from above than to listen to the wishes of those below. One of the few times when Harvard does stoop down and lend its ear to the underlings is when it chooses new house masters. The Dean of the College meets with house residents, and students participate on the master selection committee. Such an outrageously progressive decision-making process should serve as a model for major appointment decisions, and other choices...
...alone. In the late sixteenth century, Montaigne wrote: "The evil means men use in our day to push themselves show clearly that the end is not worth much. Let us reply to ambition that it is she herself that gives us a taste for solitude. For what does she shun so much as society? What does she seek so much as elbowroom...