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7 Ways to Inspire Innovation

By Robert F. Brands · 14 years ago

The recently introduced Apple iPad is the latest wowing of the world by the pioneering computer company. Taken in totality, with its iPhone, iPod, MacBook laptops, and the original Macintosh computer itself, Apple's ability to ...

Daughters in Danger

By Joanne Kimes&Rj Colleary & Rebecca Rutledge Phd · 15 years ago

As you may recall from your own teenage years, separating from one's parents is a vital, and healthy, part of growing up. All well and good. But the question is this: as your daughters move ...

Call the Midwife

By Jennifer Worth · 15 years ago

The cot is ready. A good size washing bowl is available, and gallons of hot water are being boiled downstairs. There is no running hot water in the house and I wonder how they used ...

What Is This Pain?

By Laura Berman Fortgang · 15 years ago

It starts as tightness in the upper solar plexus. Then it starts to droop like the top of an ice cream cone on a hundred-degree day, eventually melting over everything to form a vague coating ...

The Secrets Unfold with Riddles and Rhymes

By Carole Lynne · 15 years ago

We must be open to many levels of reality and ways of looking at reality. Theology, science, history, archeology, and psychology have all been trying to discover the truth about how life evolved and what ...

Spiritual Experience is for Everyone: Communicate Comfortably with the God of your understanding

By Carole Lynne · 15 years ago

You can sit under a tree and meditate or visit your beloved house of worship. You can climb mountains, plant flowers or chop wood for the fire. You can find spiritual experience everywhere as it ...

Everyone Can Discover Their Intuitive Gifts

By Carole Lynne · 15 years ago

Would you like to use your intuition to make better decisions for yourself, your family and the world? If so here are some tips on dealing with the challenges living an intuitive life brings. Inner ...

Annuals and Biennials

By Fern Marshall Bradley And Trevor Cole · 15 years ago

A garden can be quickly filled with color by using annuals and biennials. These plants flower longer than many others and are ideal for filling gaps in a border. Almost any patch of soil can ...

Go Organic to Shrink Your Gardening Budget

By Fern Marshall Bradley · 15 years ago

Saving the Earth and protecting children and pets from dangerous chemicals are the reasons most gardeners cite for giving up pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, but guess what? Making the switch to organic gardening methods will ...

Mothers of Contention and the Money Wars

By Meg Wolitzer · 15 years ago

What will become of the mommy wars in the flailing economy? My fantasy (and it is just a fantasy) is that they will eventually fade into obscurity like, say, the Punic Wars -- relics from ...

Slutty Versus Sexy

By Simon Oaks · 15 years ago

Now that you intend on having an open and honest sex life, how do you plan on getting him into the sack? Slutty and sexy are a couple of very effective tools you have at ...

"Honor Killing" and Islam

By Kamran Pasha · 15 years ago

The American Muslim community is reeling from news of the horrific beheading of Aasiya Hassan, allegedly by her husband Muzzammil Hassan. They were respected members of the community and co-founded BridgesTV, a television network ironically ...

God's Warriors

By James Lepore · 15 years ago

Megan Nolan emerged from the bowels of Montmartre's Abbesses Metro station into a cold and raw late afternoon in January of 2001. Rawer and colder, it seemed to her, than when she had entered the ...

Sticky Brain Teasers

By Chip And Dan Heath · 15 years ago

Test your audience with these during an interview or on your website. Adapted from Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die Test the Curse of Knowledge With Tappers and Listeners Take a ...

Parent-Teacher-Student Partnership

By Jenifer Fox · 15 years ago

The conversation about changing our minds, our schools, and our nation to a paradigm that focuses on strengths begins with parents and teachers. Parents, teachers, and students can begin to form a strength alliance between ...

The Obama Effect

By Roland Laird · 15 years ago

During a recent segment on an ESPN sports show, Andre Iguodala of the Philadelphia 76ers was being interviewed by one of the show's reporters. As the hour wound down, the in-studio host asked Mr. Iguodala, ...

Hitler and Franco

By C.j. Sansom · 15 years ago

The issue of the relationship between Spain's General Franco and Hitler has been a controversial one for many years. The "conservative" view is that Franco's dealings with the German dictator were pragmatic, based on what ...

Oil, Chávez, War and Terror

By Michael Rowan · 15 years ago

A half century ago, Juan Pablo Perez Alfonso, the Venezuelan who started OPEC, said, "Ten years from now, twenty years from now, you will see: oil will bring us ruin . . . Oil is ...

Obama's Test From Chávez

By Michael Rowan · 15 years ago

Of all the foreign policy messes George W. Bush is handing off to President-elect Barack Obama, Venezuela's Hugo Chávez is the worst. On the two tests where Chávez is the key -- shaping a respectful ...

How the Best Leaders Build Trust

By Stephen M. R. Covey · 15 years ago

Almost everywhere we turn, trust is on the decline. Trust in our culture at large, in our institutions, and in our companies is significantly lower than a generation ago. Research shows that only 49% of ...