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...befits a nation that grew from a scattering of people on a fat saddle of continent where land was often given away. That have-it-all ethos persists today, even though the resource freebies are long since gone. Other countries--where the acreage is smaller and the pickings are slimmer--came of age differently, with the need to cooperate getting etched into the cultural DNA. The American model has produced wealth, but it has come at a price--with ambition sometimes turning back on the ambitious and consuming them whole...
...women’s soccer team suffered its second consecutive tough home loss, dropping a 1-0 decision to Dartmouth on Saturday.With the result, the Crimson (7-5-3, 1-3-2 Ivy) saw its chances of obtaining an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament grow a bit slimmer, while the Big Green (11-3-1, 4-1-0) now finds itself alone in first place in the Ivy League after Columbia shocked Yale on Friday.The loss comes on the heels of Harvard’s excruciating 2-1 loss to Princeton at Ohiri Field last weekend, when...
...always been a disconnect between politics and the economy," says Witold Orlowski, an adviser to outgoing President Aleksander Kwasniewski. No party ever gets the blame, for example, for Poland's groaning state finances. But now, Orlowski argues, persuading voters to accept the need for painful structural reforms and a slimmer welfare state "will be the main political task of the new government." Are the two Solidarity veterans up to it? They'd better be. Since joining the E.U. last year, Poland's been on something of a roll. The country has enjoyed impressive growth (an expected 4% this year), booming...
Overweight girls are likelier than slimmer ones to start menstruating before age 12. They're also eight times as likely to become overweight adults. The early periods have often been blamed for the weight struggles, but a new study in Pediatrics reverses that. It's being overweight, the journal says, that appears to kick-start puberty...
...Slimmer Trimmer Scissors don't cut it. For roses and other thorny matters, Fiskars 38-cm Easy Reach Pruners have handy levers for snipping at a distance; $25 from fiskars.com...