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This High School is Doing Whatever it Takes to Mentor First-Generation Students

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In Homer’s ancient story The Odyssey , the goddess Athena, disguised as old man Mentor, reveals to the hero’s son the right path to take. Skip forward several millennia and across the Atlantic to an urban high school preparing teens for life after graduation, and the image of mentor-as-lone-sage doesn’t quite paint the picture.

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James Dyson: The Ever-Tinkering Engineer

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He politely answered questions about his startup years and tough business decisions (in 2002, he moved production of his machines from Malmesbury, a small town in England, to Malaysia; more on this later). James Dyson is one of Britain’s biggest stories Dyson’s mentoring extended beyond his own research and development department.

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How to Survive a Recession, According to a 91-Year-Old Business

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Speculation of another impending recession battered the confidence of small-business owners, as indicated by monthly surveys conducted by the National Federation of Independent Business. A fire in the restaurant’s kitchen in April 2002 forced the owners to scramble to become operational again before the summer rush.