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...some sort of kooky New Age outdoor revival. But it wasn't God who inspired this crowd of 2,200 to gather on a recent Saturday night. It was Google - and the chance that this South Carolina city might be able to coax down the manna of super-high-speed Internet from tech-giant heaven. (See 10 tech trends...
...school on time, participating in class and having a positive attitude - with "money" they can redeem for supplies at the school store. Over the years, KIPP leaders, who now run 82 schools nationwide, have learned a lot about which rewards work and which do not. They have found that speed matters, for example. Recognition, like punishment, works best if it happens quickly. So KIPP schools pay their kids every week. (Interestingly, the two places Fryer's experiment worked best were the ones where kids got feedback fast - through biweekly paychecks in Washington and through passing computerized quizzes in Dallas...
...Faculty meeting progressed with uncharacteristic speed and occupied less than half of its usual two-hour timeframe...
...tactic, says Mia Bloom, author of Bombshell: Women and Terror. In Russia the problem is particularly acute, as more than 50% of the country's suicide attacks have been committed by women, compared with about 30% globally. Far more than those of male bombers, their attacks also speed the flow of new recruits and money into the terrorist organizations. "The women come forward and shame the men into participating," says Bloom. "They appeal to masculinity, to the manly urge to protect women, and that fills up their ranks and their coffers...
...Nina has a lot of speed,” Tetreault said. “She got the ball and took it right down to the net and scored...