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One morning, a few years ago, Harvard President Neil Rudenstine overslept. After years of non-stop toil in an atmosphere that rewarded frantic overwork, Rudenstine collapsed. Only after a 3-month sabbatical--during which he read essayist Lewis Thomas, listened to Ravel and walked with his wife on a Caribbean beach—was he able to return to his post. That week, his picture was on the cover of Newsweek magazine beside the banner headline "Exhausted"! In the relentless busyness of modern life, we have lost the rhythm between action and rest. I speak with people in business and education, doctors and day-care workers, shopkeepers and social workers, parents and teachers, nurses and lawyers, students and therapists, community activists and cooks. 71. Remarkably, there is a universal refrain: "I am So busy." The more our life speeds up, the more we feel weary, overwhelmed and lost. Today our life and work rarely feel light, pleasant or healing. Instead, the whole experience of being alive begins to melt into one enormous obligation. It becomes the standard greeting everywhere: "I am so busy." We say this to one another with no small degree of pride. The busier we are, the more important we seem to ourselves and, we imagine, to others. To be unavailable to our friends and family, to be unable to find time for the sunset (or even to know that the sun has set at all), to whiz through our obligations without time for a single mindful breath—this has become the model of a successful life. 72. Because we do not rest, we lose our way. We lose the nourishment that gives us succor. We miss the quiet that gives us wisdom. Poisoned by the hypnotic belief that good things come on- ly through tireless effort, we never truly rest. This is not the world we dreamed of when we were young. How did we get so terribly rushed in a world saturated with work and responsibility, yet somehow bereft of joy and delight We have forgotten the Sabbath. Sabbath is the time that consecrated to enjoy and celebrate what is beautiful and good—time to light candles, sing songs, worship, tell stories,, bless our children and loved ones, give thanks, share meals, nap, walk and even make love. It is time to be nourished and refreshed as We let our work, our chores and our important projects lie fallow, trusting that there are larger forces at work taking care of the world when we are at rest. If certain plant species do not lie dormant during winter, the plant begins to die off. 73. Rest is not just a psychological convenience; it is a biological necessity. So "Remember the Sabbath" is more than simply a lifestyle suggestion. It is a commandment, an ethical precept as serious as prohibitions against killing, stealing and lying. Sabbath is more than the absence of work. Many of us, in our desperate drive to be successful and care for our many responsibilities, feel terrible guilt when we take time to rest. But the Sabbath has proven its wisdom over the ages. Many of us still recall when, not long ago, shops and offices were closed on Sundays. Those quiet Sunday afternoons are embedded in our cultural memory. Much of modern life is specifically designed to seduce our attention away from rest. When we are in the world with our eyes wide open, the seductions are insatiable. Hundreds of channels of cable and satellite television; phones with multiple lines and call-waiting, begging us to talk to more than one person at a time; mail, e-mail and overnight mail; fax machines; billboards; magazines; newspapers; radio. For those of us with children, there are endless soccer practices, baseball games, homework, laundry, housecleaning, errands. Every responsibility, every stimulus competes for our attention: Buy me. Do me. Watch me. Try me. Drink me. It is as if we have inadvertently stumbled into some horrific wonderland.
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Many people wrongly believe that when people reach old age, their families place them in nursing homes. They are left in the (67) of strangers .for the rest of their lives. Their (68) children visit them only occasionally, but more often, they do not have any (69) visitors. The truth is that this idea is an unfortunate myth--an (70) story. In fact, family members provide over 80 percent of the care (71) elderly people need. Samuel Preston, a sociologist, studied (72) the American family is changing. He reported that by the time the (73) American couple reaches 40 years of age, they have more parents than children. (74) , because people today live longer after an illness than people did years (75) , family members must provide long term care. More psychologists have found that all caregivers (76) a common characteristic: All caregivers believe that they are the best (77) for the job. In other words, they all felt that they (78) do the job better than anyone else. Social workers (79) caregivers to find out why they took (80) the responsibility of caring for an elderly relative. Many caregivers believed they had (81) to help their relative. Some stated that helping others (82) them feel more useful. Others hoped that by helping (83) now, they would deserve care when they became old and (84) . Caring for the elderly and being taken care of can be a (85) satisfying experience for everyone who might be (86) .
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The International Primary Curriculum is an idea that began in Britain eight years ago. Today this curriculum is taught in more than one thousand primary schools in fifty-eight countries, including the United States. Educator Martin Skelton co-wrote the International Primary Curriculum, or IPC. He says for children to learn and succeed, they need a program that permits them to learn individually. "Our view is the teachers should be thinking about their kids in their class and why they are not learning and trying to work out what they are going to be doing tomorrow to help individual kids learn much better." He says the idea with the curriculum is to help today’s children become good citizens of the world and twenty-first century leaders. "Most world problems are going to be solved internationally now. I mean no single country is going to solve the environment or terrorism. It’s a multi- cooperational activity." Mr. Skelton says the curriculum has activities built around the development of "international mindedness" starting from the age of five. "We encourage the kids to mingling with schools in other countries, and then of course things like Skype now make that fantastically easy to do." The British American School of Los Angeles is one of a few American private schools that teach the International Primary Curriculum. Second grade teacher Alison Kerr says the main goal is to engage children in the learning process. This term, for example, her class is learning about people important in history. "I got the children to come in secret and dress up with several clues of a famous person. They had to research and bring us ten written clues and the rest of the class had to guess who these significant people were. So the children do not simply just do the same worksheet type of format every single time." The British School in Boston held a fair for students and parents called Around the World in a Day. Emma Northey, head of primary learning at the school, says fifty-one nationalities were represented. She described one activity designed to teach about similarities between different cultures. "The children were each given a passport. They basically knew that they were going around the world in a day and we said to them ’You have to come back with two similarities that you had seen between the different cultures.’ Even the three-year-olds came back to me saying ’Gosh, you know everybody writes. Some people write going down. Some people write from left to right, some from right to left.’" Another educator, Kate Foy of the British School in Washington, says the teacher’s role is to enable students to discover for themselves. "And you kind of have to sit back a little bit. You have to make sure you’re asking the right questions. You maneuver yourself around the classroom and enable the children to learn as opposed to telling them.\ What is the main goal of the International Primary Curriculum
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