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...firms have a tougher time following suit. Allan Martinson, who ran an IT firm and has now set up shop as a venture capitalist, reckons that Estonia's true innovative edge has more to do with the willingness of the public to use technology than with any particular national skill at developing it. "We're fast early adopters. We're very good at getting innovation to work," he says. For example, the whole financial system leapfrogged into electronic banking in the mid-1990s, bypassing all messy dealings with checks and other paper transactions. And the government has done its best...
...heard an obviously exhausted undergrad behind me boast. “But I could probably go longer now.”All talk of going longer aside, I made it my mission after arriving home in August for a month of vacation to test my endurance and skill not only in sleep, but also in something very closely related: mindless sedentary activity. As surely as there are good and bad ways to arbitrarily drop the names of obscure social theorists in section, or to insert an obviously faulty counterargument into an essay that has no thesis, there is a correct...
...forward Abby Maguire netted the Friars’ first goal, her fourth of the season. Less than ten minutes later, the Friars were given a penalty corner. Two Friars missed the ball as it traveled out of the circle. With a stroke of luck followed by a stroke of skill, the ball bounced directly in front of Providence midfielder Melissa McGow, who smashed a long backhanded shot past the Crimson goaltender, sophomore Kelly Knoche. It was McGow’s sixth goal. “[The Friars] were very good,” Harvard head coach Sue Caples said...
...Raising a Child in Iran's Cultural Divide Coping with the gulf between Iranian private and public life is a difficult skill even for adults to manage. So what should we teach our children...
...rules of the Core—but we shouldn’t have to. For many years now, students have been able to take cross-listed departmental courses to satisfy Core requirements. Cross-listing makes sense, as a broad array of departmental courses deal with the same skill sets and areas of knowledge as Core classes. Literature and Arts A courses, for example, have no monopoly on questions like “What are the relations among author, reader, text, and the circumstances in which the text is produced?” to quote the Courses of Instruction...