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                    [Title] => Nothing petty about petty crimes
                    [Summary] => 

I have been warned. I enjoy walking in UP, from ABS-CBN to Tomas Morato, or whenever I feel like it — usually by myself.

[DatePublished] => 2011-08-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134513 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1168457 [AuthorName] => Bernadette Sembrano [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 713127 [Title] => The social network [Summary] =>

First of all, a lesson.

[DatePublished] => 2011-08-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1106716 [AuthorName] => Adrian Concepcion [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/6787/ystar5thumb.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 560593 [Title] => Friendships at a click [Summary] =>

Have we really become friendlier with technology? If you have about 1,000 names in your mobile phonebook or your Facebook account, how many of those can you really call your “friend”?

[DatePublished] => 2010-03-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133961 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1489734 [AuthorName] => Maria Isabel Garcia [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 80913 [Title] => The tipping point [Summary] =>

Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God. — Romans 12:1

In his book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell observes that struggling businesses are often turned around by one key decision.

[DatePublished] => 2008-08-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Daily Bread [SectionUrl] => daily-bread [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 341100 [Title] => Global phenomenon we're just taking for granted - II [Summary] => Further citing TIME en toto: "During the last ice age, the atmosphere's CO2 concentration was just 180 parts per million (ppm), putting Earth into a deep freeze. After the glaciers retreated but before the dawn of the modern era, the total had risen to a comfortable 280 ppm. In just the past century and a half, we have pushed the level to 381 ppm, and we're feeling the effect. Of the 20 hottest years on record, 19 occurred in the 1980s or later. According to NASA scientists, 2005 was one of the hottest years in more than a century".
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133156 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1471332 [AuthorName] => Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 311637 [Title] => ‘The Tipping Point’ [Summary] => Six months after Garci said "Hello" – he’s back. And I thought all along it was "Goodbye Garci." Some were even saying that he had already started to count the stars six feet under. I guess they were wrong – because he’s back. The problem is, watching him on television makes us all look like fools. He is trying to spin everybody around his tale. So people wouldn’t know anymore what is true and what is not.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133593 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 237368 [Title] => BREAKING BARRIERS, BUILDING BONDS [Summary] => A multi-targeted advertising campaign was recently launched by The Social Acceptance Project-Family Planning (TSAP-FP), with Secretary of Health Manolet Dayrit leading a prominent list of individual and group advocates from both public and private sectors lending unequivocal support.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133905 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1174371 [AuthorName] => Bong R. Osorio [SectionName] => Lifestyle Business [SectionUrl] => business-life [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 136204 [Title] => Little changes, big effects [Summary] => I was intrigued by the title of a book called The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference, ( Little, Brown and Company, 2000). This fascinating book by Malcolm Gladwell, who is a writer for New Yorker magazine, explores "why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly" or "tip," and how these ideas, trends or behavior spread like an epidemic. [DatePublished] => 2001-10-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135137 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1637375 [AuthorName] => OUTSIDE THE BOX by Doris Magsaysay-Ho [SectionName] => Lifestyle Business [SectionUrl] => business-life [URL] => ) ) )
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