A retired teacher looks at the rest of his life

It tells the story of a 61-year-old teacher facing early retirement and a host of suggestions for self-improvement from the women in his life. ...
City has an offer to help with home improvement

While many focus their list of New Year resolu tions on self-improvement, in 2010, the City of North Royal ton is looking to help resi ...
The lesson of life is love

Nichols decided to finish writing a book he had already started, "The Book of Knowledge and Self-Improvement for Today's Youth. ...
Self-help books, programs are popular tools for improving health, habits» Evansville Courier & Press

For a lot of people, that means buying the latest self-help book or joining a support group, gym or formal self-improvement program. ...
It’s self-improvement time for both of us

Today, we're in a self-improvement mood, so if you're one of us who isn't perfect, it's time to sit up and take notice. If you don't, ...
Benjamin Franklin, self-improvement guru

The most extraordinary of them all was Benjamin Franklin, a man who dedicated his life to self-improvement. At the age of 24, Franklin proposed the idea of a public library. "The library afforded me the means of improvement by constant study, for which I set apart an hour or two each day, and thus repaired in some degree the loss of the learned education my father once intended for me," Franklin wrote in his autobiography.Franklin's Library Company of Philadelphia was founded in 1731, more than four decades before the American Revolution. Other libraries sprang up, and Franklin recognized the role they were playing in strengthening the emerging nation. "These libraries have improved t...
Philadelphia Daily News

... negro," the kind of figure who exists only to enlighten white people, to set them on the road to self-improvement, with no interior life of his own. ...
University of Wyoming

every 10 years to determine whether a college or university has maintained rigorous academic standards and worked toward continual self-improvement. The HLC is the accrediting body for post-secondary schools in Wyoming and 18 other states. UW, which has been continually accredited since 1923, was last reaccredited in 2000. For a well-established institution such as UW, the reaccreditation process fosters additional focus on program quality and the processes used to maintain that quality. UW has invited the public to submit comments to the Higher Learning Commission to: Public Comment on the University of Wyoming The Higher Learning Commission 30 North La...
A Year After US Airways Flight 1549, Many Promises to Keep

No, the vows toward self-improvement, of deals to do better in their lives, came later — hours, days or weeks later. Several passengers, looking back over ...
Andy Murray must join the grand slam queue
The other leading players would also have been working hard at self-improvement during the close season. "Murray has the ability to win a grand slam title. ...