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  • Want to Age Gracefully? Dress Like a Lady

    Want to Age Gracefully? Dress Like a Lady0

    “When I was fifteen years old, I wanted to be a vamp—with a black veil, and a cigarette holder,” Carolina Herrera recalled in an interview with W magazine. “Because I was watching all these fantastic movies with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich and all these very glamorous ladies, so I wanted to look like that.”

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  • Want Teenage Boys to Read? Give Them Books About Heroes

    Want Teenage Boys to Read? Give Them Books About Heroes0

    Studies show that teenage boys lag behind teenage girls in reading. Even in adulthood, women are far more enthusiastic readers; two out of three adults who say they never read books are male. Debate rages about whether biology or culture is to blame, but the fact remains that girls simply seem to enjoy reading more—how

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  • Want Strong Social Skills? Top Execs Say These 4 Steps Are a Must.

    Want Strong Social Skills? Top Execs Say These 4 Steps Are a Must.0

    From the time that the modern homeschooling movement began to gain a foothold in American culture, there is one question that prospective homeschoolers have received more than any other: “What about socialization?” The flip side of this, of course, is the implication that students attending traditional public or private school are models of exemplary social skills.

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  • Want More Women in Technical Fields? Get the Government Out of the Way.

    Want More Women in Technical Fields? Get the Government Out of the Way.0

    A while back, a friend of mine was telling me how he had spent a fair amount of time doing some mechanical work on his car. Hearing this, I made a comment about how nice it was that he could pass this knowledge on to his sons. He smiled and said, “You know the funny

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  • Want Low Income Taxes? Don’t Live in This State.

    Want Low Income Taxes? Don’t Live in This State.0

    Taxes are the price that regular people pay for government spending. Whether that spending goes to things and services that people want, like road repairs, schools, fire and police protection, trash pickup, public parks, or to things that people don’t really want, like sports stadiums or excessively lavish pension benefits for bureaucrats, the bill for all these

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  • Want Dumbed Down Schools? Get Rid of Logic.

    Want Dumbed Down Schools? Get Rid of Logic.0

    In a recent column for The Washington Post, Valerie Strauss highlighted a program called NoRedInk, which helps students across the nation improve their writing skills. Given that only 27 percent of U.S. high school seniors are proficient in this area suggests that such a program is quite necessary. What’s interesting, however, are the areas in

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