[OPINIONS★★] PARENTING SUCCESSFUL KIDS (P1) Anybody who has kids — or hopes to — wants them to stay out of trouble, do well in school, and go on to do awesome things in the professional world. (P2) While there isn’t …
[BUSINESS★] 5 TRUTHS ABOUT THE NATURE OF BUSINESS (P1) I look at business in the same way that I look at nature. (P2) In our four unique seasons there are many things at play as the world around us transforms …
[LIFE★★] HELICOPTER PARENTS RUIN CHILDHOODS (P1) According to the DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, the number of elementary and MIDDLE SCHOOLERS who walked or biked to school dropped from 48% to 13% between 1969 and 2009 (P2) What’s happening here? THE ECONOMIST …
[OPINIONS★] HOW A GROWTH MINDSET LEADS TO SUCCESS (P1) When Carol Dweck was starting out as a DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGIST, she’d go into schools and SUBJECT children to a series of increasingly difficult puzzles. She was astonished by what the kids …
[SPORTS★★] MICHAEL PHELPS THE PERSON IS BACK NOT JUST THE SWIMMER (P1) As his life unraveled, the MICHAEL PHELPS RUED that all he knew how to do was swim. “So I was just this little hole where a man should …
[Technology★] PRINT THYSELF (P1) In February of 2012, a medical team at the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN’s C. S. Mott Children’s Hospital, in Ann Arbor, carried out an unusual operation on a three-month-old boy. The baby had been born with a …
[Technology★★★] MARK ZUCKERBERG’S INTERNET.ORG HAS A FEW MAJOR FLAWS (P1) Not everyone is a fan of Internet.org, FACEBOOK‘s non-profit aiming to bring internet access to “THE MOST DISADVANTAGED” parts of the world. (P2) Since its February ROLLOUT in India, several …
[WORLD NEWS★★] SOUTH AFRICA MOVES TO QUELL ANTI-IMMIGRANT VIOLENCE (P1) Shops and vehicles owned by foreigners were attacked in downtown JOHANESSBURG on Friday as the South African government tried to QUELL a wave of ANTI-IMMIGRANT VIOLENCE that has claimed at …
[BUSINESS★★] BLOOD SIMPLER (P1) ELIZABETH HOLMES, who is thirty, is the C.E.O. of THERANOS, a Silicon Valley company that is working to UPEND the profitable business of BLOOD TESTING. Blood analysis is important to medicine. When your physician wants to …