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...Heath parse in their upcoming book, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. The exploration follows from a class Chip, 43, a professor of organizational behavior, teaches at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. He comes to the topic by way of research into urban legends and conspiracy theories--ideas that are wrong but so annoyingly sticky they just won't go away. Dan, 33, draws his interest from working as an education consultant and trying to figure out what makes some teachers so effective...
Many kidnapping victims are held captive in remote farmhouses in the countryside. But after a few days in the basement prison, Waddah came to believe he was in an urban environment. Although there were no windows, he could hear city traffic and, when the power went out, the sound of several generators starting up. The bread served was often warm and fresh, indicating there was a baker nearby. If his captors had neighbors, they were probably complicit in the kidnappings; they obviously didn't report the sound of gunshots within the house to the police. During one interrogation, Waddah...
...that is very different from the society I left barely six years ago. Music on campus is a huge part of the social scene in Karachi, dating is rampant, the arts and culture are vibrant, and Western influences and the free press are spreading. Most middle- and upper-class urban residents, although they may not support the Bush Administration's policies (who does?), are not fanatic in their beliefs and would never cast their votes for conservatives...
Republican Jeffrey Kwong ’09 accused the Democrats of complaining without offering solutions and lauded the Republican Party’s work in advancing school vouchers, which he said greatly aided urban students...
...Michigan, labor unions like the United Auto Workers, top officials at two of the state's biggest businesses, Ford and General Motors, the Chamber of Commerce groups in several of the state's cities and the Michigan Catholic Conference, as well as national groups like the NAACP and the Urban League. "It's a very lonely battle," Connerly told TIME earlier this year...