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Edwin* studied the faces staring back at him from the townhall audience. The company had recently churned through two CEOs in quick succession, and now as the third CEO, Edwin could feel the ...

Do you want to stun audiences with imaginative storytelling and creative prose? Follow the example of stories that survived centuries, like The Odyssey, Aesop’s Fables, and Shakespeare’s plays. Inject ...

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Mr. Biergel posed the question one morning to my high school grammar class. Being typical teenagers, we looked at him with blank-eyed stares. We expected that if we waited long enough, he’d write a ...

1 Integrated Graduate School of Medicine, Engineering, and Agricultural Sciences, University of Yamanashi, Chuo, Japan 2 Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Research, University of Yamanashi, Kofu, ...