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What Color Is Your Parachute

One Way to Change the World

Maureen Anderson | Posted 04.02.2013 | Healthy Living
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Maureen Anderson

"You see that guy over there?" I asked one of my daughter's teachers, who's fast becoming a family friend. "The one with the blonde hair?" She did. "H...

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China's Worldview: Three Timeless Truths

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Yin and Yang, Hegemony, Chinese Medicine, Nature and Japan, Shanghai, Tangshan Earthquake, Yellow Mountain, Tcl, Luxury Brands in China, China, Success in China, Gao Kao, Change, The Economist, What-Color-Is-Your-Parachute, Palace Exam, Individualism in CHina, Technocracy, Contemporary Chinese Culture, Chinese Cosmology, Middle Kingdom, Yi Jing, Steve Jobs, Yellow River, Nature and China, Face, Bill Gates, Gmat, Daoism, Kung Fu, Japan, Confucianism, Evil Chaos, Harmony, Miguel Patricio, Moral Absolutes, Ni Peimin, Chinese Government, Sichuan Earthquake, Communist Party, Feng Shui, Ba Gua, Book of Changes, Deng Xiaoping, Inbev, Fish Breeding, Aftershock, Legalism, Metersbonwe, Zhaungzi, Zodiac Signs, World News
Tom Doctoroff

What is Chinese culture? Now and forever, perpetual yet shape-shifting,in modern and ancient guises, the Chinese worldview can be distilled down to ...

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Astoria Characters: The By-The-Book Librarian

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Astoria, Nancy Ruhling, Kindle, Michigan State University, Queens Library, Librarian, Steinway Library, Laurel Hicklin, The Chronicles of Narnia, Nook, New York News. University of Michigan, Thumb of Michigan, Books, What Color Is Your Parachute?, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

Laurel Hicklinis standing in the stacks at the Steinway Library. She takes a deep breath. "There's nothing like the smell of books," she says in delight.

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