Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Intellectual contradictions have never stopped the self-help gurus in the past, of course. And so three of them are publishing new books to apply their wisdom to the untidy art of being a mom and a dad. The titles give the game away. These books are franchise extenders--knockoffs from a successful product line. Elaine St. James, author of last year's Simplify Your Life, now tells us to Simplify Your Life with Kids (Andrews McMeel Publishing; $14.95). Stephen Covey, who has lobotomized a generation of business executives with The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, offers...
...before the unimportant things ("Habit 3: Put first things first"). America's corporate managers are notoriously gullible, of course, and the money they spend on a self-designated "leadership authority" like Covey is usually not their own. But parents are supposed to be harder to fool. By transplanting his wisdom into the burgeoning field of family books, he's betting they aren't. He may be right...
...Class of 2001, I would like to add the following words of wisdom to the many you have already heard. The moment that Harvard will reward you is not the moment when you forge your greatest ties to the University, or even when you get that job or make that leap through the connections and thinking that you gained here, but rather the moment when something or someone that is distinctly non-Harvard-even though you might find that someone or something here-becomes more important to you than Harvard itself, when you succeed in taking what Harvard has given...
...Moon come to be? Prevailing wisdom has it that 4.5 billion years ago, a collision between the Earth and an object larger than Mars tossed immense quantities of vapor and debris into orbit around our planet. Eventually, the gas and rock formed a disk of dust which cooled and clumped together to form the moon. That theory received a major boost Thursday thanks to a study published in the journal Nature. Using computer simulations, University of Colorado scientists showed how a single moon can grow in this fashion. The researchers conducted 27 simulations which tracked up to 2,700 objects...
...decades Mother Teresa was elected head of the order with only one dissenting vote: her own. But in the fall of 1996, she nearly succumbed to heart disease, and the sisters realized it was time to elect a successor. In March, 123 representative nuns gathered to pray for wisdom and chose a Hindu Brahmin convert named Sister Nirmala, whom one called a compassionate "carbon copy" of their revered leader...