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June 26, 2009 at 5:30 pm · Filed under Education + Training, Partisans, Stuff for Kids
Courtney Sale Ross graduated with an honorary doctoral degree in 1991 at Skidmore College. She is the widow of Steven J. Ross, former Chairman and CEO of Time Warner.
For over 16 years now, Courtney Ross has been leading the implementation of innovative changes in education.
Together with her the late husband, Ross built the originative Ross School in 1991. The school implemented some of the most advanced methods in K-12 education, eventually implementing progressive ideals of world leadership and technological integration.
Aside from the school, Courtney Sale Ross also heads the Ross Institute, founded in 1996; and the Ross Global Academy, founded in 2006. Running three separate non-profit academic institutions, the goal has always been the same for Courtney, to bring attention to and encourage cultural understanding and globalization.
Courtney Sale Ross shares her dream of one day sharing to millions around the globe everything there is to learn at the Ross School. She intends to do this by helping shape some of the world’s best minds.
To further help inculcate the value of education to students, she set up the Steven J. Ross Scholarship Fund, which aims to extend tuition aid to at least half of the student body.
In addition to her work in these schools, Courtney has also contributed to major universities across the US, including her alma mater Skidmore College, New York University, the University of Southern California, and Harvard University.
Aside from her educational endeavors, Ross is also faithful in extending her assistance to the People’s Republic of China by contributing to museums catering to education and research.
April 22, 2009 at 9:33 am · Filed under Great Health Tips, Medical, Partisans
Mesothelioma is a infrequent cancer of the tissue that lines the body’s interior organs. Around two thousand brand new instances are pinpointed each year in the whole United States. Of this group, almostthree fourths of cases involve the sac around the lungs, called the pleura. This type of cancer is called pleural mesothelioma. In almost ten to 20 percent of cases, malignant mesothelioma could involve the tissue that surrounds abdominal organs, referred to as the peritoneal membrane, causing what is then known as peritoneal mesothelioma.
Introduction to asbestos is positively the largest cause for this rare sickness. After asbestos exposure, the time to progression of the mesothelioma disease may be 2 to 4 decades. Because of occupational introduction, mesothelioma is around three times more common in men, than in women. Due to the mass of occurrences rises with your age, there are around ten times more occurrences in the males over age 64 than in the men in their midlife.
Being diagnosed with Cancer of the mesothelium is a severe sickness, that, at the moment, has a incredibly bad degree of long-term continuance. However, if it is pinpointed early, regimens are then at hand that might significantly prolong the patient’s life. All new therapies continue to be and are being developed through the use of clinical trials.
May 27, 2008 at 1:07 pm · Filed under Partisans
You expected, once the honeymoon was over, to consult your wife on a number of issues but not on this one. After all you’re a teacher Why should she explode when you tell her , on the honeymoon, you’re going to spend the first two years of your life together living and working in Saudi Arabia.
What you should know about a happy marriage is that it’s based on discussing everything with your wife.
In joining with her in marriage you’ve asked here to give up carefree culture of single life for the highly responsible culture of married life where she’s expected to put you first when making any decisions.
Now she has to deal with a whole new kind of culture shock as well. She has to swap the sandy dunes of Newport Beach California for desert dunes. In a land where she doesn’t speak the language she has to find new friends.
And she has the added trauma of facing the birth of her first child in a hospital system she knows nothing about.
Your defense is you “assumed” it would be OK because of all the huge pay increase coming your way.
Marriage Makeover Part 2 calls on you to check all assumptions.
How do you do that?
Simple. Ask your wife if what you’re planning is OK by her.
For now, all you can do is apologize and ask for her forgiveness.
And pray she will.
Copyright 2006 Kenneth Little
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