In the first year at high school or college students are called “freshmen”, in the second they’re called “sophomores”, in the third year we call them “juniors” and in the fourth year they’re called “seniors”. Now a lot of high school graduates then go to college or university...
Mother Teresa was an Albanian-born Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia and died in 1997 in Calcutta, India. She is known for her humanitarian work, which focused on helping the poor, sick, and dying, and earned her the Nobel Peace Prize in...
The amount of time someone spends on social media can be a determining factor in whether their experience is mostly positive or negative. Negative effects of social media seem to be greatest for younger generations, with particularly pronounced impacts for Gen Zers who spend more than two hours ...
What you all say is true. We were given narcissists as parents. They didn't have us because they wanted us - they had us because the social norm was to have 2.5 kids and a picket fence. I don't believe they ever loved us at all. They looked at us as insurance for someone to ...
. After leaving KSAN I spent a number of years working at Warner Bros Records in LA, then returned to the Bay Area to spend a few years working for Bill Graham, and realizing that I did in fact miss radio, and probably more importantly, that someone had asked me to come back to ...
Starting with the lowercase is helpful, and something I have begun doing—though I haven’t always. Clearly, little ones need to know both upper and lowercase letters, but since so much of the print in our everyday lives is lowercase, I find it beneficial to start in that way. ...
“I still have hopes someone, someday will uncover the manuscript, hidden in a box in an attic or brought to light during an estate sale.” Copiesof the manuscript certainly exist. In 2013, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette Foundation purchased Lot 228 at a Sotheby’s auction in New...
Of course, between then and now a few things came along that I didn’t know I was looking for. Bella and I met in 1989 and were married in 1994. Our children Cee and Robert were born in 1997 and 1999, and there’s no way I could have predicted the beautiful individuality they each...
even though frost has set in and there may be chill in the air for some time between the two largest economies in the world. Some may fear China's juggernaut innovation. Some may not like competition, which is rarely comfortable. But having someone in your rearview mirror helps you keep ...
In the 1940s, maggots took an extended leave, replaced on the frontline of infection management by the sulfa drugs and then penicillin. In cases of drug- resistant infections, however, they were called up and, without fanfare or publicity, did what was asked of them. In 1976, they briefly...