Tag: teacher
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Create Abundance with Meditation in Salt Spring Island, Vancouver, Canada
Article by Zhang Xinyue of Golden Touch Everyone has a dream in their heart, something they’ve always wanted to do. Maybe you have a great idea for a book, but for some reason, you’ve never made yourself sit down and start writing. Maybe you have a terrific idea for an invention, but every time you…
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How To Hack Your New Year’s Resolution For Success
I've never liked the words “objective” or “goal.” Perhaps my distaste for such terms can be traced back to elementary school, where the teacher would write the word “objective” on the blackboard in giant letters. Then, we had to talk about why we were doing what we were going to do that day. Why didn't…
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From curse to catfish: West Africa schools tackle stigma of disability
By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Working quietly in a classroom at a primary school in Dakar, nine-year-old blind boy Abdoulaye sits next to the star pupils, who watch and help him, and alert the teacher if he struggles. “At first there were worries and fears, it was an innovation to have all…
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Toil and trouble in China over Nobel medicine prize
China's Tu Youyou collects her country's first Nobel Prize for medicine next week for extracting an anti-malarial drug from a herb mentioned in a traditional text, but her award has prompted debate over the role of science in the practice. Tu derived artemisinin from sweet wormwood, which she found cited in a 4th century traditional…
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Facebook’s CEO and wife to give 99 percent of shares to their new foundation
By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Mark Zuckerberg will put 99 percent of his Facebook Inc shares, currently worth about $45 billion, into a new philanthropy project focusing on human potential and equality, he and his wife said Tuesday in a letter to their newborn daughter. The plan, which was posted on the Facebook…