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John Githongo is an unlikely hero. The son of a patrician Kikuyu family - his father was accountant to Kenya's first President, Jomo Kenyatta - Githongo grew up in Nairobi's leafy suburbs, went to the best schools and studied abroad. He enjoyed privileges that 95% of Kenyans can only dream of. In 2003, on the strength of that background, Githongo was appointed his country's anti-corruption czar...
...Future. It was just such a whirlwind experience for me. I was doing Family Ties at the same time, working 18 to 20 hours a day. I was 22 years old. And the movie itself holds up, even though we're now almost at the time he went to in the future. No hoverboards...
...argued that our son would not feel embarrassed either way, since compared with American babies in the 1960s, when 90% got snipped, about half of newborns are now deforeskinned - and only about 30% of California infants. I went on Facebook to ask if being made fun of in the locker room was apocryphal. What I learned is that even Facebook users disapprove of making parental decisions on Facebook. And kids probably don't make fun of one another, since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that only 69% of circumcised and 65% of uncircumcised adolescents know which...
Fifty years ago, there were 10 family-owned spinning plants in Kings Mountain and hundreds of textile mills across the Carolinas, employing hundreds of thousands of people. You know how that story went. Patrick Yarns is the only family-owned spinning plant still standing in the small mill town, and billion-dollar corporations like Springs and Pillowtex have either moved their manufacturing overseas or vanished. The bigger picture is even worse. According to the U.S. Labor Department, the country lost more than 4 million manufacturing jobs from 2000 to 2008, a number that is likely to rise when the damage...
...Guide to Student Life at Harvard, a guidebook published by HSA, as its main source of information. The book has reviews of over 900 establishments in Cambridge and Boston. “There are lots of good reviews, but would you ever bring a guidebook with you when you went out?” said Winston X. Yan ’10, co-creator of Rover. Rover uses GPS to pinpoint locations of interest according to the user’s specifications. It sorts all hits by distance from the user and displays relevant contact information for the selected establishment...