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...movie has only a single shot of a dorm room with a Harvard banner to connote any relation to the University, and the fact that the movie involves Harvard has done little to spur ticket sales in the area...
...spoke for six minutes and received a standing ovation. Some of the delegates even cried. I thought that maybe I had reached some of them, that my speech might actually spur action. Now, a decade from Rio, after I've sat through many more conferences, I'm not sure what has been accomplished. My confidence in the people in power and in the power of an individual's voice to reach them has been deeply shaken...
...luxury. It gained widespread acceptance only with the industrialization of America and especially with the Great Depression, when the old suddenly were expected to get out of the way of the young, who were stronger and more productive and who needed jobs to buy homes, raise families and spur the economy. Today's boomers generally look forward to retirement but see it as a time to become active in ways they could not be when they were building careers and rearing families. For some that means finding new work, not out of need but for fulfillment--teaching, consulting, writing...
...meat diet was thought to be health-favorable," says Paul Rozin of the University of Pennsylvania. "Kids today are the first generation to live in a culture where vegetarianism is common, where it is publicly promoted on health and ecological grounds." And kids, as any parent can tell you, spur the consumer economy; that explains in part the burgeoning sales of veggie burgers (soy, bulgur wheat, cooked rice, mushrooms, onions and flavorings in Big Mac drag) in supermarkets and fast-food chains...
...months before many young adults find their place in today's crawling-out-of-a-hole economy--which is being compared with the "jobless recovery" that followed the 1990-91 recession. Help could be on the way: the current rise in productivity and corporate profits should eventually spur hiring. But for now, productivity is surging because companies are squeezing more work out of fewer people, discouraging news for young adults stuck in the back of the hiring line...