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...essential values which make most people want to be involved in changing things or improving things are your belief that everybody has got a talent and everybody should have a chance to develop that talent. That's what makes you tick and what makes you want to do things...
...Road, this is not your usual rummage sale of bad macramé and lopsided pottery. Instead, MAAD is an outdoor bazaar that stresses cutting-edge work from budding fashion designers, graphic artists, painters, jewelry makers, housewares makers and product designers. Before they go on sale, the items need the tick of approval from a panel of curators that currently includes Edward Tonino, a senior designer with electronics manufacturer Philips, and Ken Koo, president of the Asian chapter of the Red Dot Design Awards-one of the design world's most sought-after honors...
...Bible. Solace and hope provided to billions: you guessed it. And Shakespeare would almost surely have agreed. According to one estimate, he alludes to Scripture some 1,300 times. As for the rest of literature, when your seventh-grader reads The Old Man and the Sea, a teacher could tick off the references to Christ's Passion--the bleeding of the old man's palms, his stumbles while carrying his mast over his shoulder, his hat cutting his head--but wouldn't the thrill of recognition have been more satisfying on their/own...
...Harvard students unfamiliar with the word “denial.” The site provides an example in our own lingo: “I don’t have a problem. You’ve got the problem, Dude. And besides, you’re beginning to tick me off!” Cowabunga! Surprisingly, a random sample of ten students in Quincy House dining hall yielded none who scored in the addicted range of 7 to 9 “yes” answers. Four were not addicted, while the remaining...
...second week he makes a foray from what he calls "the Westminster bubble" to some farther-flung outpost of the kingdom, meeting as many people as possible. "Obviously," he says, "in politics, people want to have a look at you and understand who you are and what makes you tick...