If you learned to ride a bicycle, there’s a pretty good chance you fell.
And fell down a lot.
I sure did.
What’s worse is I learned to ride on hills, with red mud.
And that means there was a good chance of losing control on the slopes. And grazing your feet, hands and face rather badly. Plus I [...]

Imagine yourself in a helicopter over Milwaukee, USA, on the
shiny morning of June 13, 1998.
You look down casually on the crisscrossing tangle of roads on Interstate 94, and then do a doubletake. You can’t believe your eyes.
It seems like there are hundreds of moving objects on the highway below. Maybe even [...]

Say cheese,” says the person behind the camera.
And you say cheese. Your facial muscles are frozen. You have a dumb, goofy look. And under your breath you’re muttering,”C’mon Take the picture, take the picture, c’monnnn!”
Click! You blink. The picture’s been taken.
And then the photographer runs across to you, all excited to show the nice digital [...]

US$19.2 billion.
If you take the annual budgets of 142 countries including Cuba, Jordan and Lithuania and add them up, they won’t amount to US$19.2 billion.
Yet in the year 2000, that sum was Harvard University’s endowment. If you’re thinking,’Wow! That’s amazing!’ there’s another wow coming up.
In 1999, Harvard’s endowment was US$14.4 billion. [...]