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First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

'Fashion Camp' Improves Young Girls' Self-Esteem

RENO, Nev. -- For many young girls, spending a week at the mall is a dream, but now it can be a reality thanks to Fashion Camp. It's a week-long summer program for young fashioniestas with a passion for style and design, but they'll learn much more than ... [Published KOLO TV Reno - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Fashion, Peer Pressure, Cutouts (Clothing)

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

Fathers Day

is bittersweet to me after both my husband and I lost our fathers a few years ago. We still miss them, but that pain seems to lessen as the years go by.For Fathers Day this year, my husband finally got the new grill he was wanting. Towards the end of ... [Published Fairmont Sentinel - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Peer Pressure, Organic Chemistry, Sexual Relationship

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Public schools, private beliefs

Separation of church and state is enshrined in the US Constitution. But here's what's sometimes overlooked: While the state must not back any particular faith -- or even faith itself -- it also must not restrict expressions of faith. That distinction ... [Published Christian Science Monitor - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Religion, John Yemma, Peter Stuyvesant

First reported Jun 16 2013 - Updated Jun 16 2013 - 1 reports

Lone wolf

The 48-year-old investment adviser, wearing his trademark round spectacles, looked energetic after a full-day as chief investment officer and managing director of Look's Asset Management Ltd."The stress comes from yourself when you set up a business and ... [Published Hong Kong Standard - Jun 16 2013]

Entities: Hong Kong, HSI, China, Peer Pressure, Earnings Yield

First reported Jun 16 2013 - Updated Jun 16 2013 - 1 reports

Malaysians getting into debt to sustain lavish lifestyles

PONTIAN: Malaysians are getting themselves deeper into debt, leading to many youths and university graduates becoming bankrupts even as they enter the job market. said civil servants and low-income earners were having bigger household and personal debts ... [Published thestar.com.my - Jun 16 2013]

Entities: Malaysia, Gross Domestic Product, Bankrupt, Peer Pressure, Proactive Measures

First reported Jun 15 2013 - Updated Jun 15 2013 - 1 reports

Toyota Motor Corporation

Toyota Let Kids Choose the Car

FAMILY FUN WITH TOKYO TOY SHOW CONCEPT CARPeer pressure is a good starting point for choosing a car; wanting one that’s better than a rival, a relative or a neighbour. But then there’s the constant begging and pleading and non-stop head-pecking from your ... [Published Nationwide Vehicle Contracts - Jun 15 2013]

Entities: Toyota Motor Corporation, Peer Pressure, Tokyo

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Baystate doctor offers advice on helping teens

WARE – "Everybody, no matter what age, is faced with pressure to 'fit in'," said Dr. Scott Siege, Medical Director of BMP-Quabbin Pediatrics. "In our teenage years this pressure can be even stronger because no one wants to feel like an outsider."Teens ... [Published Worcester Telegram & Gazette - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Pediatrics, Peer Pressure, Smoking, Appointment

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 2 reports

Peer pressure, social factors lead to smoking: Survey

A majority of smokers in Kolkata fall prey to the habit between the age group of 16 to 20 and social factors like friends and peer pressure play an important role in picking up the habit.“Social factors like friends and peer pressure (93% in Kolkata) ... [Published AsiaNetIndia.com - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Smoking, Peer Pressure, Kolkata (formerly Calcutta)

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

Video: Alex Laskey of Opower on the Power of Peer Pressure in Energy Conservation

Research has shown that “appeals to cost and conservation have no impact on people’s energy consumption.” What does have an impact? Peer pressure from neighbors.At the heart of Opower’s software is the behavioral nudge—a gentle push toward the right decision. ... [Published Tiger Comm - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Opower Inc, Peer Pressure, Energy Conservation

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

Procrastinators: You're not 20 any more

Special to The Globe and MailFinishing grad school, buying that first home and deciding to have children. They're not the only life goals some Canadians put off. Add the words "saving for retirement" to the list.Recession-stymied careers, looming debt ... [Published GlobeAdvisor - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Tim Simpson, Peer Pressure, Toronto

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

Clinton Council Advances Proposed Smoking Ban

The Clinton City Council is advancing a new smoking ban that would include city parks, after reviewing it as a full council for the first time.The new ordinance is an attempt at changing the culture of smoking in Clinton.Where 18 percent of county adults ... [Published KWQC - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Smoking, Smoking Ban, John Rowland, Peer Pressure

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

Peer pressure and a hostility to authority affect university access

I READ with interest the findings from the recent research by Professor David Raffe of Edinburgh University on why the Scottish Government strategy has failed to make effective change in widening university access to those not in the upper or middle classes ... [Published Herald Scotland - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Peer Pressure, Scottish Government, Buckhaven High School, Robert Ferguson, Bill Robertson

Quotes

"I get sad when my friend does that to me," six-year-old Maddline Mintz said. "I always tell her it doesn't matter about clothes, it doesn't matter about that girliness, it just matters if you're nice."

'Fashion Camp' Improves Young Girls' Self-Esteem [Published KOLO TV Reno - 4 hours ago]

"Children lose their appetite for adventure and never learn risk management" he said. "The parents actually kill it."

Lone wolf [Published Hong Kong Standard - Jun 16 2013]

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'Fashion Camp' Improves Young Girls' Self-Esteem [Published KOLO TV Reno - 4 hours ago]
Public schools, private beliefs [Published Christian Science Monitor - Jun 17 2013]
Fathers Day [Published Fairmont Sentinel - Jun 17 2013]
Lone wolf [Published Hong Kong Standard - Jun 16 2013]
Malaysians getting into debt to sustain lavish ... [Published thestar.com.my - Jun 16 2013]
Interview Mrinal ROY [Published MauritiusTimes - Jun 15 2013]
Toyota Let Kids Choose the Car [Published Nationwide Vehicle Contracts - Jun 15 2013]
Baystate doctor offers advice on helping teens [Published Worcester Telegram & Gazette - Jun 14 2013]
Peer pressure, social factors lead to smoking: ... [Published AsiaNetIndia.com - Jun 14 2013]
Peer pressure, social factors lead to smoking: ... [Published Press Trust of India - Jun 14 2013]
Video: Alex Laskey of Opower on the Power of Pe... [Published Tiger Comm - Jun 13 2013]
Procrastinators: You're not 20 any more [Published GlobeAdvisor - Jun 12 2013]
Clinton Council Advances Proposed Smoking Ban [Published KWQC - Jun 12 2013]
Peer pressure and a hostility to authority affe... [Published Herald Scotland - Jun 12 2013]
Magda Pecsenye: An Interview With Deesha Philya... [Published Huffington Post - Jun 11 2013]
Julie Kantor: Graduates - Let Your Geek Flags ... [Published Huffington Post - Jun 11 2013]
Area teens learn defensive driving with free cl... [Published MySanAntonio - Jun 11 2013]
June 11, 2013 by Zainab Ahmadi Stress in Studen... [Published Daily Outlook - Jun 10 2013]
Diversity: cure for Korean misery? [Published Korea Times - Jun 10 2013]
Why are black men turning away from Christianity? [Published Voice Online - Jun 09 2013]
Students Fear Drug-Abusing Peers' Retaliation [Published Easley Patch - Jun 09 2013]
engineering a future? [Published The Hindu - Jun 09 2013]
New Report: Shelby Co. Teens Lead State in STDs [Published My Eyewitness News - Jun 08 2013]
Peer pressure hits Hucknall school’s safe cycli... [Published Hucknall Dispatch - Jun 08 2013]
Peer pressure hits Hucknall school’s safe cycli... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - Jun 08 2013]
Peak Performance hosts group runs (beer included) [Published Live Well Nebraska - Jun 07 2013]
When yesterday’s solutions are the best fit for... [Published Business Daily Africa - Jun 06 2013]
16 May 2013, Improving law firm profitability –... [Published Horwath Clark Whitehill - Jun 05 2013]
Peer pressure starts in childhood, not with teens [Published Medical Xpress - Jun 05 2013]
From the Web: Offering people drugs [Published Central Utah Daily Herald - Jun 04 2013]

Blogs

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Five reasons users uninstall mobile apps [Published Venturebeat - Jun 03 2013] This sponsored post is produced by uTest.You have a million different reasons to download an app. Peer pressure. Curiosity. The list goes on. But knowing when to let go of a mobile app, well, that’s the tricky part. We want to make that decision a little ...
Five reasons users uninstall mobile apps [Published Venturebeat - Jun 03 2013] This sponsored post is produced by uTest. You have a million different reasons to download an app. Peer pressure. Curiosity. The list goes on. But knowing when to let go of a mobile app, well, that’s the tricky part. We want to make that decision ...
Why Customers Don't Buy [Published HBR Blog Network - May 10 2013] The real enemy of salespeople today isn't their archrivals; it's no decision. That's according to the several hundred business-to-business salespeople I conducted recently . What is it that prevents a prospective customer from making a purchase even ...
America wants Kyoto Protocol replaced with peer... [Published Grist - the Latest from Grist - May 10 2013] NASA Can peer pressure save the planet? America never ratified the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, and it doesn’t want the rest of the world ever signing anything like it again. As world climate delegates try (not very successfully, mind you) to thrash out a ...
TechCrunch Mobile Barcelona Meetup 2013 — Here ... [Published TechCrunch - Feb 20 2013] Barcelona is coming alive with preparations for Mobile World Congress and we are pumped about the super-international TechCrunch Mobile Barcelona meetup in the same week. With thanks to our local supporters in the shape of Barcelona.io and Wayra ...