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Facebook, Apple, Netflix Top 2011 Breakaway Brands List
If Landor Associates’ 2011 Breakaway Brands list proves anything, it is this: Younger isn’t necessarily better, stronger or more relevant. This year’s list of Breakaway Brands comprises both contemporary and classic brands. Now in it’s sixth year, the Breakaway Brands Study offers a unique look at U.S. brands that have exhibited sustained, quantifiable increases in brand strength
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Yoga for at-risk communities
Dressed alike in loose grey pants, blue T-shirts and dark navy sweatshirts, a group of teenagers files into the bright room. They remove their shoes and sit on the identical green mats arranged in two rows on the floor. Once they’re seated, Annika Hanson, their teacher, asks for silence. A few kids, ignoring her, keep laughing and talking. Eventually, one speaks up. “Just go ahead and be quiet.” Then amid minimal noise, Hanson leads them in chanting “om.” Yoga class has begun.
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What a long, strange trip its been
Frank Ferrante allowed a film crew to record his transformation from obese drug addict to clean, serene grad student. Now he’s coming soon to a theatre near you.
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Why Write?
I pressed my eyes to the ceiling and flailed my hands around over the long wooden table in a classroom in Eliot Hall. “I’m not reporting on any of you,” I said. “This is supposed to be, like, a personal account of my personal experience at Alumni College. So, I’m not going to be writing about you.” “Don’t worry,” Debra