When I was in the eighth grade,I had a friend.We were shy and “too serious” about our studies when it was becoming fashionable with our classmates to learn acceptable social behaviors.We said little at school,but she would come to my house and we would sit down with pencils and ...
choosing “some of my best stories, and some of my favorite stories, and a few of my weirdest thrown in for good measure. It is the scope of me, and it’ll be a few years before we can do this again.”
1.The Boston Tea Party It was another cold December night in Boston. The three British ships the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver were sitting in Boston harbor, their holds full of tea that wasn't being unloaded because the angry residents of Boston were threatened not to buy or use...
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in the courtyard below. Se monumentum requires, circumspice, said the priest. He was referring to Christopher Wren and his St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, but also to the woman in whose house we were sitting. We have to thank her, he concluded cheerfully, for giving us something to ...
Netflix is the world’s largest movie house but owns no cinemas. Instead, it hasdisrupted traditional television stations by offering a catalogue of on-demand tele-vision series, making pay-per-view movies of traditional cable television networksvirtually obsolete in the process. Netflix pays to ...
And now would be as good a time as any to mention that if you smoke you don't have money enough to rent a room here. Smoking is forbidden inside the house and on every inch of the 75 acres outside that I own. It's bad enough when someone who is smoking drives by in a car. ...
One day, Riley’s dad gets a new job, and she is forced to move from her small town in Minnesota to the middle of San Fransisco. The move is incredibly difficult for Riley (and the Emotions) — she just wants to be back in Minnesota with her house and friends. ...
technology companies in support of a new White House initiative, Startup America. Intel Capital has also joined the Startup America Board of Advisors. Intel provides resources and hosts events for small and medium-sized busi- nesses to help them scale their operations using technology. For ...
Lawrence Klein, Kenneth Arrow and Zvi Griliches were asked to testify before the House of Representatives. The first highlighted the benefits of his macroeconometric models for the information industry, the second explained that economic tools were badly needed at a time when rising inflation and ...