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...norm. Maxworthy takes a $2,000-a-month salary from his operation to make ends meet. It was that, or keep his old job--and last year alone his organization says the program touched 3 million lives. "So many people think if they don't have an enormous sum of money to leave to a philanthropic group, they can't leave an important legacy," says Marc Freedman, CEO of Civic Ventures, a nonprofit that promotes active aging. "But the way we use our experience--something we all have--may be a more enduring gift to future generations than money." Civic...
...Hawks, in the notorious Khmer Rouge stronghold of Pailin, field a mixed team of cashiered former rebels and government soldiers. From eight teams in 2002, the local league has grown to 16 sponsored squads in two divisions who compete for an annual $3,000 prize - a sum that goes a long way in rural Cambodia...
...hell is he” in the first paragraph in an article. I just came from England where there were five different articles about me and they all started with the rock star hook.7.FM: You appeared on The Colbert Report this past February and summed up the brain in 5 words. Can you sum up being an academic rock star in 5 words? Bonus rock star points for fewer words. SP: Oh my goodness, (long swig of coffee). Deep ideas, light touch.8. FM: In a similar vein, Geoffrey Sampson wrote an entire book countering the arguments in The Language Instinct...
...really came through in a big way.” From that point, however, experience carried the day for the Harvard men. Senior Andrew Lipkin was 24th in 25:25.3, and classmate Chris Green was 31st in 25:33.0. Sophmore Chas Gillespie rounded out the scoring, based on the sum of each school’s top five finishes, for the Crimson by running 32nd in 25:34.8. “I think on the men’s side experience always plays a role,” Saretsky said. “There’s just something about...
...never going into science, or math, and I’m certainly not going to make a career in philosophy. Even after Science A, I cannot now tell you the difference between an ampere and a light year. I could sum up the categorical imperative in three sentences, but I learned much more about moral reasoning from making hard decisions in my extracurricular than I did listening to my peers’ opinions about the justice of cannibalism. Likewise, I’m not sure what my biochemist blockmates are really gaining from their humanities classes other than cocktail party...