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...ministries quickly become irrelevant to teens," he says, "because pastors get kids excited with cool video clips and cutting-edge music, but then when a parent gets cancer and the teenager is lying in bed wondering what life is all about, he or she discovers there's nothing to sustain them...
...said, pointing to the vacant area where the orchids once bloomed. Rachel Singh ’10 said she has a cactus because it’s easy to take care of. “It’s alive, and the fact that we can, away from home, sustain a living thing is quite comforting,” she said of the green cactus with yellow flowers that sits on her windowsill. Etcoff is the author of “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty.” She said that she studied...
...conversed with both the audience and musicians. In the middle of the opening piece, Mozart’s Third Violin Concerto, soloist Jonathan Gandelsman took the classic work in an entirely surprising direction. Instead of playing a traditional cadenza, Gandelsman switched to a distinctly Chinese theme. Playing over a sustained drone from the cellos and pentatonic bird-calls from the violins, his solo was a stark contrast what would be expected. Gandelsman had bent a note here and there during the piece—his first cadenza had sounded slightly odd, though not oriental. These bent notes had the effect...
...might be the 300 millionth American. This is the kind of thought - pretty much the only thought - that can sustain you throughout a very long naturalization ceremony, most of which is spent waiting. All of which comes after a very long naturalization application process, most of which is also spent waiting - punctuated by a brief moment of excitement when you swear you have not engaged in prostitution, Communist party membership or genocide. That...
...Mohammed Yunus, a Bangladeshi economist, met a woman in Jobra, Bangladesh who was trying to earn a living by selling bamboo stools. She made only two pennies of profit a week, far from enough to sustain a family, as buying supplies required her to borrow from a local moneylender at extremely high interest rates. Yunus soon discovered that Jobra was filled with others just like her—women whose tiny ventures barely survived but had the potential to thrive if they could borrow money at reasonable rates...