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Leymah Gbowee helped stop the civil war in shattered Liberia by leading the women of the country in a protest for peace—a movement which included denying sex to the men of the country until the fighting ended. In her personal life, she has survived domestic abuse and alcoholism, both detailed in her [...]
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ARE the men who run China brilliant strategists or accident-prone apparatchiks, who can appear strikingly naïve about the wider world? For proponents of the second of these popular caricatures, China’s behaviour thus far at the UN’s climate change summit in Durban might look like evidence. On December 6th Xie Zhenhua, the head [...]
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Here are ten tips aimed at helping you learn how to innovate at a higher level by unleashing your inner Steve Jobs – that is, to figure out how to create the iPhone or iPad for your particular industry… a product so compelling it takes the market by storm and wins you [...]
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By Tammy Worth It’s a myth that suicide is more common around the holidays (springtime is actually the peak). But holiday cheer isn’t a given either. High expectations, money woes, and other holiday hazards can spell trouble for anyone, but especially those prone to depression. With a bit of foresight and planning, [...]
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Ski in ski out to the North Chair at Blue from this hillside Great investment – Spotless unit updated in 2010 (Furniture, heating, flooring, blinds & more. 3 appliances. Walk onto the slopes, from this building, or grab the shuttle to the Village. Not currently in a rental program but easy to do. On Blue [...]
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Friends of the Library Annual Bake Sale Stock up for your Holiday entertaining! Thursday, December 8th in the Reference Room Time: 10 AM to 8 PM
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Like many folks, I often feel achy this time of the year. The culprit? Bracing against the cold New York City weather with my shoulders hiked up to my ears, not to mention the tension from wanting to “do it all” for the holidays. To feel better, I do this soothing sequence: Cow [...]
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“THE dying process has begun”, wrote Alexander Kugel, a journalist and theatre critic, a few months after the bloody Bolshevik revolution of 1917. “Everything that we see now is just part of the agony. Bolshevism is the death of Russia. And a body the size of Russia cannot die in one hour. [...]
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Blame it on convenience, laziness, or marketing brilliance (Jennifer Aniston does look good holding that Smartwater bottle), but U.S. sales of bottled water are on the rise, inching up 3.5 percent in 2010 after having dropped in recent years, to $6.4 billion a year, according to industry figures. That despite some increasingly [...]
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When you think of old age – of people over the age of 65 years – what immediately comes to mind? If you were to answer memory problems, slowing down, poorer ability to make decisions, and the like, then you’d be conveying a view of aging that is rooted in reality. [...]
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It’s 8pm on a Sunday. You already ate dinner and watched Jersey Shore / Holby City even though a) you can’t stand that show, and b) you already saw that episode. And now you really, really, REALLY should get started on that essay / presentation / big pile of ironing. You absolutely [...]
