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Bad Test Taker? Good News

Since 1963, U.S. students have been “very bad at tests and very good at life,” Fareed Zakaria says, noting that during the same period of time the Uni...
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Why You Wanted Your MTV

In this message-oversatuartion era, marketers have to “pick an audience and superserve them,” says branding guru Alan Goodman, who teaches a marketing...
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#ThePeople Raise Their Voice

Hashtag politics gives people who don’t have big money to donate to candidates a way to compete with big donors, or so says social media guru Alan Ros...
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What’s a Bitcoin?

The cyber currency created in 2009 as “a plaything for hackers,” will be used by governments by 2023 and consumers by 2027 by some estimates, Nathanie...
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U.N. Chief to Youth: “Rise Up”

Young people can agitate against injustice better than the leader of the United Nations can, or so he says. “I as secretary-general have constraints s...
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Hello Young Writers

Colum McCann’s advice to aspiring writers? Write. The Hunter College creative writing MFA professor reads “A Letter to a Young Writer” and his short s...
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Novelizing Naples

Who is the Neapolitan novelist writing as Elena Ferrante? The world doesn’t know, yet the world has taken notice of such books as The Days of Abandonm...
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The Sugar Wasn’t Sweet

They could starve in India or work like slaves on the sugarcane plantations of British Guiana; that was the choice for thousands of Indians who left h...
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