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Exceptions To The Rule

Exceptions To The Rule by: Wayne and Tamara Direct Answers - Column for the week of March 29, 2004 Yesterday I turned 48, and she just turned 21. Uh-oh, I can hear the gears turning in your heads already. She will graduate from university in En...

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The Rate of Change

The Rate of Change by: Ieuan Dolby There have been many discussions and grumblings in the Western world about the ever increasing pace of change and the ability of the brain to accept it. The Internet (something uninteresting that the American M...

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Give Your Attitude A Little Altitude

Give Your Attitude A Little Altitude by: Michael Dixon Need a way to make your life a better place to live? Life is our perception of what it is, not necessarily the reality of what it is. Let's see if I can explain that. Life can sometimes...

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Lose Stagefright Over Your Lunch Hour

Lose Stagefright Over Your Lunch Hour by: Melissa Mayers Lewis While teaching a two-day Speaking Confidence program to a group of 25 government secretaries, I wanted to give them practice using their personal experience to help others. So I gave...

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A Bad Move

A Bad Move by: Wayne and Tamara Direct Answers - Column for the week of April 7, 2003 My husband is a wonderful man, we are in our thirties, well-educated and fairly affluent. However, his mother has been a stumbling block in our relationship fr...

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Clear and Appropriate Assignments

As a teacher of students with learning disabilities, I found that one of the most difficult things for many of my students was understanding and completing homework assignments. Here are 10 tips to help students be successful in completing their home...

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Choosing a Graduate Program Six Considerations

Choosing a Graduate Program: Six Considerations Introduction.A well-thought-out decision to go to graduate school is one based on intense soul-searching, rigorous academic training, and careful research. Yet many undergraduates, eager to embrace acad...

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5 Ways To Boost Your Memory

5 Ways To Boost Your Memory- by Murdo MacleodHave you ever imagined the benefits a good memory can bringyou?Being able to remember important pieces of information -like names, facts and figures, directions, procedures,quotations - can give you a powe...

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10 Easy Tips To Make Your New Year’s Resolutions Succeed

It is a New Year 2005 and I want to wish you good health, long life, success and happiness.During the New Year, most people make resolutions but often very few are able to keep them.Psychologists, Janet Polivy and Peter Herman, reported that 25% of n...

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Who Needs Heroes

When we were talking the other day we started to think about our heroes when we were young. After we had discussed the usual film star and sports stars that we idolised I remembered Derek. Derek was a couple of years ahead of me in school and he had ...

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