Curiosity about the power of self-control skills, which include conscientiousness, self-discipline, and perseverance, arose from recent empirical observations that preschool Head Start, an ambitious, federally funded program of special services launched in 1965 to boost the intellectual development of needy children, has failed to achieve the goal of boosting IQ scores. But the programs have unexpectedly succeeded in lowering the former pupils’ rates of teen pregnancy, school dropout, delinquency, and work absenteeism.

The stations are generally very poor, even for a branch line; some are mere wooden shacks, and Moniaive itself is one of the least prepossessing terminal stations I have ever seen.

We're going for Christmas greens and Dad's going to cut our tree from away up on the hillside, Toad told him, and, he added, "we're going to take one of the horses with us to drag it home.

The shortest, or the Feather Merchants, as the smaller men were so inappropriately designated, brought up the rear.