Word: soundness
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...Have All The Time in the World," Louis Armstrong The delicate ballad from Her Majesty's Secret Service answers the question, What would it sound like if Louis Armstrong met Burt Bacharach? It sounds good...
...economic problems quickly became a political challenge for President Lee. A former CEO of Hyundai's construction company, Lee triumphed in the country's 2007 election on a platform of reform aimed at returning South Korea to rapid growth. Not only did the economic crisis make his campaign promises sound hollow, the President and his policy team came under heavy criticism for reacting too slowly to stem the turmoil. "The problem has become deeper than necessary," says Charles Chang, managing partner of Seoul-based boutique investment-banking firm Accolade. "It is the failure of the government." Chang believes policymakers...
...rests on an exuberant celebration of paint volcanoes, Twinkie force-feeding, amplified Cap'N Crunch--chomping and Jell-O-encased heads. It's so universally silly that Blue Man Groups currently thrive in eight cities, from Las Vegas to Tokyo to Basel, Switzerland. But like many other enterprises that sound funny and turn out to be incredibly earnest (recent Jim Carrey movies spring to mind), the Blue School is a very serious business...
...sound like a theme park, but the founders worked closely with education experts, including British creativity guru Sir Ken Robinson and UCLA's Daniel Siegel, to create the curriculum. Questions like HOW DO 4-YEAR-OLDS UNDERSTAND THE COLOR RED? are written on pieces of paper stuck to the classroom walls. Learning is to be provoked, not imposed. Teachers talk approvingly of "fun provocation going on in the 3s." Simko describes her job as leading students into a series of questions that will guide the curriculum. "It doesn't suit everybody," she says of the methodology, "but every school should...
...best advice I got was from Eric Reyes and Whitney Walker, co-authors of The Perfect Baby Name and, for $75, name consultants. They ignore subjective reasoning like name meanings and associations and focus solely on sounds. Walker told me that the strong s or t in my last name would sound nice repeated in the first name, as would the long-i sound. Whatever I choose, she suggested that I Google the name before settling on it. "Just to make sure it's not a porn star or something," she said...