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...buys a plane and learns to spin, loop, roll and do all three simultaneously at hundreds of miles per hour. He makes pilgrimages to obscure Midwestern airfields for aerobatics competitions, and he seeks out those few masters of the sport who have survived long enough to pass on their wisdom. One of their truisms: "You will almost kill yourself once every hundred hours of flying...
...Common wisdom holds that you should never invest in a stock mutual fund that has less than a three-year record--no matter how well the fund performed the previous year or two. Even a monkey throwing darts has a 50% shot at superior returns over one year, and the ape's odds of doing well over two years remain uncomfortably high. Do you really want to take the chance that your fund manager is nothing more than a lucky primate? Of course not. But you don't want to rule out potential winners either. New evidence suggests that young...
...enter Harvard Yard through Dexter Gate, whose inscription enjoins us to ‘Grow in Wisdom.’ But few seem to notice the invocation as we leave. To our world of individualism, it speaks of solidarity and unity of purpose. It says this: ‘Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind,’” Moulton told his class...
...Eliza Harris ’03 along for the lesson and the three of them sat in the Lowell Junior Common Room, guitars in laps, watching Taylor’s hands fly over the frets of a guitar. Hoelting, in search of musical wisdom, instead sat attentive as Taylor delivered well-rehearsed diatribes on the importance of rhythm, the occasional faults of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and what it means to make music for a living...
...people in New York City so low in energy and in a rut?” It was a mix of Hegel, Socrates and Lucy from the “Peanuts” comic strip, who sold Charlie Brown pearls of wisdom for five cents apiece...