Will Pearson
Will Pearson
William E. Pearsonis the co-founder of mental floss, a bi-monthly magazine, which he started with Mangesh Hattikudur when both were students at Duke University. Pearson graduated from Duke in 2001, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. Describing himself, Pearson noted his penchant for eating two M&M's at the same time, on different sides of the mouth, "making both sides of the mouth equally happy". Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur met as freshmen at Duke University and in their...
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I won't even begin to work with a client until they have completed a letter of intent, which deals with your hopes and dreams for the child, ... I tell the mom, who is often the one who writes it up, that they should write it as if they were an angel on the shoulder of the designated caregiver. She should include everything she would whisper in their ear.
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I was very confident that we were the only team in the region that could give them a game.
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We can see that the scale of change and the pace of change is now in another group of 15 to 25 countries, which are in the process of trying to reach the level of the modern industrial democracies.
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I think it would be fitting if we could lift Suffredin and his posh Evanston home and drop it smack in the middle of New Orleans' flood-ravaged lower Ninth Ward, ... I can just see Larry now, sitting on his veranda, trying to fend off looters and 'gators with green tea and granola bars. Yes, it's a silly visualization, but it illustrates just how out of touch Larry Suffredin is with the world lying beyond his cobblestone street.
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I think they're good teams. Being inconsistent doesn't mean they're bad teams. We're going to prepare like they're good teams.
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I'm shell-shocked, that's all I'm prepared to say. Absolutely shell-shocked. I'm pretty upset at the moment, to be honest.
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Unless you can't talk, all of your fingers are broken or you're in a coma somewhere, you should be able to call in yourself. It really is annoying for most of us employers to have cousins, husbands or mothers call in when the employee could call in themselves. That's not how you do business.
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Understanding climate change and its consequences is critical to protect lives and assets upon which India's economy is dependent.
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We gave up way too many easy baskets, didn't get back in time. Defensively, the effort wasn't there and we've got to get it back on track.
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We are not seeing a huge impact on the DAX ahead of the Fed's decision tomorrow, but foreign investors had bought into the idea of reform and the risk is that they will unwind their overweight positions, which would be negative for the euro.
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The qualifying went from two laps to three laps and then to four laps, stuff like that, hoping I'd mess up one lap and not get it, ... Then, they changed the track, took that hump out of (Turns) 3 and 4. Humpy said, 'I've got you now.' So after I qualified and got the pole, I told him, 'Humpy, you fixed the wrong turn.' And he did.
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Those are questions that are under discussion. Right now we're focused on the seasonal flu.
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Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.
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We're still trying to determine what the exact risk might be. We're looking at a number of different things ? hygiene practices, environment, if there was any product contamination, if there is something about certain solutions that makes the fungus grow. If people are concerned, as always, we suggest they talk with their eye care professional.