Efforts in Congress and state legislatures to restrict student work hours meet fierce resistance from industry lobbyists who proclaim the character-building virtues of after-school jobs.
The Boy Scouts of America, with its traditions of youth in uniform and the character-building virtues of honor, has always looked back to an older, more structured image of America, when gay and lesbian people were invisible and silent.
The character-building virtues of liberal education will always have a place within the college curriculum, but colleges must also make room for marketable and employable skills training as well.
I had heard all about the brain-building virtues of essential fatty acids (especially DHA, docosahexaenoic acid), known collectively as omega-3s, which are found in fish such as salmon and sardines.
"This building, by virtue of its geographical prominence and by virtue of having made itself a public venue, is a target.
There's no architectural finger-wagging; like the engineering innovations (achieved thanks to Ove Arup & Partners) that keep the tilted oval from tipping over, the ecological technologies are invisible, not tacked-on as a reminder of the building's virtue.
But where Alger stressed the character-building individualist virtues of thrift, hard work, and self-sacrifice -- themselves already endangered traits in the new industrial order of the robber baron age -- Gladwell is preaching an entirely consumption-driven model of the gospel of success.
The view from the penthouse atop 144 North Eighth Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn — the much-loathed "finger building" that by virtue of a fluke of timing and rezoning is far taller than its neighbors — goes on for miles.
But, without a way to smooth out peaks and troughs in demand (a virtue of building for stock), capacity utilisation will fall and costs will rise.The trick will be to make the manufacturing process more modular and less sequential: for instance, the basic platform will be built for stock and then turned into the vehicle the customer orders.
There is no sense of seeking and securing a future legacy; no idea that museums act as the guardians and custodians of the present; no recognition that people in the future will want to know about the cultural achievements of the present; no belief in the virtue of building the collections of museums.
