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...founded Plum Village, a practice center and monastery in southwest France. He resides there when he is not on tour...
...Southwest Athletic, led by Southern (21-4), No. 81 in RPI. Tourney...
There are plenty of other industries in which small firms are out-competing their larger, more conventional rivals. I could just as easily have selected the airline industry, in which Southwest and JetBlue profit from a simple strategy that the larger players like United have been either unwilling or unable to replicate. And the once great steel companies of America’s past—US Steel and Bethlehem Steel—have both been so unsuccessful in competing with cheap foreign producers and nimble competitors like Nucor that both have applied for bankruptcy protection this year, with...
...harsh calculus of public-school budgets, that means electives like PE or chorus could be the first to go. In inner-city schools, the cuts can be even less kind. For Deborah Holmes, the principal at Jefferson Junior High School, just a few blocks southwest of the U.S. Capitol, the choice was between buying more computers and doing something to raise her students' scores. In the end, Holmes opted for a $21,000 contract with The Princeton Review, reasoning that her students would become more computer literate by spending much of their time taking online practice exams...
...Camp that night was on an open slope beside the Barrancco Wall, a rocky ridge that runs down the southwest face of the mountain. Late afternoon sun warmed and dried us and then the moon, almost full, rose over the towering peak above us, lighting the glacier like a sparkling diamond. No clouds meant a cold night, and there was frost on the tents and ground by morning...