Word: staying
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...industrialism gets you only so far. Further increases in productivity and prosperity require ingenuity and enterprise applied at the micro scale - digital devices and networked systems, biotechnology, subatomic nanotechnology. As China and other developing countries finally achieve the industrial plenty that we enjoyed 50 years ago, the U.S. can stay ahead once again by pioneering the next-generation technologies that the increasingly industrialized world will require. (Read "Will China's Stock Market Rebound Before...
...breaking things) is to let them move all they want. That's because many kids use their movements - like swiveling in a chair or folding a leg underneath themselves and bouncing in a desk seat or repeatedly lolling and righting their head - the way many adults use caffeine: to stay focused. In other words, it may be that excessive movement doesn't prevent learning but actually facilitates it. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...ADHD kids who had spun around endlessly during their cognitive tests sat perfectly still while they watched the pod race. The film clip required almost no working memory, no concentrated effort. The scene simply washed over the passively watching boys, none of whom had to move around to stay alert...
...Stay one step ahead of the news Geithner caused himself so much grief by not being on top of the bonuses, even though many on his staff and on Capitol Hill knew for months they were coming. Clearly, Geithner is a busy guy, what with managing a collapsing economy, trying to restart the credit system and dealing with China, Europe and other representatives of the global marketplace as the recession spreads. And he hasn't exactly had an easy time hiring staff, with three top appointees withdrawing their names from consideration in the past month. "I knew that...
...that addressed his concerns about energy, health care and education. He would be persistent about finding a way to solve the credit crisis, persistent about finding a way to take on lobbyists and pork spending, and persistent about finding new ways of working with Iran. "We are going to stay with it as long as I'm in office," he promised the American people, reminding them yet again that he has only been in office just over 60 days and is wrestling with problems he "inherited." "This is a big ocean liner. It's not a speedboat." (See Obama...