• Wide-ranging, flexible and broad learning, the kind we encourage in high-school and college, may actually be in tension with the ability to develop finely-honed, controlled, focused expertise in a particular skill, the kind of learning that once routinely took place in human societies.

    WSJ: What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind?

  • Yet as Lipset and others have argued, these values can be in serious tension with each other.

    CNN: 2012 winner must unite America on ideals

  • But despite these differences, there does not seem to be any tension in St John's Church, with both faiths having learnt to respect each other.

    BBC: Christian Church opens doors to Muslims

  • The leadership at Salesforce.com grasped this difference and saw that if a radically different approach to management were to be introduced in one part of the organization, there would be a tension at the interface between the part of the company still doing traditional management and the part managing work in the new way.

    FORBES: Six Common Mistakes That Salesforce.com Didn't Make

  • First of all, the helicopter is actually anchored to the ground during installation, so the spool must be engineered properly to avoid any significant tension in the line or the helicopter will be in jeopardy, especially in unstable weather conditions.

    FORBES: Startup Aims To Install Pipelines With Helicopters...Seriously!

  • At the same time, the survey said that income inequality and an ageing society were likely to be a source of tension in the long run.

    BBC: China needs 'renewed reform momentum', says OECD survey

  • One beneficiary of the tension in Asia will be South Africa, with its wealth of gold and other commodities.

    FORBES: Short the West

  • Mr Talbott has also had the good luck to be able to track the same tension in the present day, as America after the cold war has oscillated between a multilateral and unilateral foreign policy under Presidents Clinton and Bush.

    ECONOMIST: America and the world

  • As Microsoft slowly leaves the legacy world behind in order to keep up with its rivals, a tension will be introduced into the market along a fault line I highlighted in a previous column: the x86-ARM divide, which falls at the bottom of the stack shown in the graphic at the top of the page.

    FORBES: Windows Devices: The Future Is Called RT

  • As one analyst told me yesterday in Berlin, there is a tension in political circles, an awareness that key decisions will have to be made before summer and "all options are now on the table".

    BBC: Smoke and mirrors and the euro crisis

  • And filmmakers should be allowed to take artistic liberties in order to create dramatic tension.

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  • Sexual tension may be part of romance, but in the ardent heart of an adolescent girl it's only a part.

    WSJ: Juvenile Fiction: Matched

  • What happens in Greece will be influenced by the outcome of the current tension between France and Germany.

    BBC: Greece election: Temporary relief for eurozone

  • This is a reasonable, legitimate debate to be had, even if it exposes the tension between their group in Cardiff and Westminster.

    BBC: When David met Carwyn: the sequel

  • There is a tension in handling large amounts of data that can be seen by many people, argues Ross Anderson, of Cambridge University.

    ECONOMIST: Companies and information

  • Tension is high in Colombo, and delegates had to be brought to Parliament by helicopter for the debates, as the police did not want to risk bringing them by road convoy.

    CNN: From Our Correspondent: Stand Up and Be Counted

  • "We believe that such a step be not only in the interests of India but in the interests of reducing tension in the region and contributing to the world regime on non-proliferation, " Mr Cook said.

    BBC: Britain and India to combat terrorism

  • And it would be easy to see his relationship with his party, and the fundamental tension in it, as broadly the same as Mr Blair's: ie, that it tolerates him because he has allowed it to taste power after decades in the wilderness.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • They are intended to be a show of solidarity between the Pacific allies at a time of heightened tension in the region, says the BBC's Roland Buerk in Tokyo.

    BBC: US-Japan naval drills start as N Korea tensions rise

  • The gesturing from the ground had all but stopped from the security team but tension was in the air, a sense perhaps that there would be a main event to follow the balcony cameos.

    BBC: The Merchant of Venice: A protest within a play

  • Nervous about the use to which such outfits might be put in such National Front-controlled spots as Vitrolles, a southern town where tension between the national and local police has been mounting, Mr Jospin has promised laws to define their role and limit their powers.

    ECONOMIST: France

  • The New York senator was considered one of the top VP contenders shortly after she ended her own White House run, but rumors of lingering tension between the former rivals and word that her name would be placed in nomination at the convention are partially to blame for kicking her out of the top tier.

    CNN: Obama: I've decided on my running mate

  • "I felt the tension out there in a situation like that - you wouldn't be human if you didn't feel like that, " said O'Sullivan.

    BBC: CHOOSE A SPORT

  • Then came the tension, this time followed by hope and excitement: Could it be that in this small, mountainous nation of over 8 million people we could scale up a rural health model for all Rwandans, over 80% of whom live in rural regions?

    FORBES: Dr. Paul Farmer

  • The end of April suddenly became very stressful for Netflix subscribers, as it was widely reported that nearly 1, 800 titles would be disappearing from its Watch Instantly service in the US. Unfortunately, it likely caused a lot of tension in Los Gatos as well and tonight the company revealed it's changing its policies.

    ENGADGET

  • Then realize that as soon as you give in to the temptation, as soon as you release the tension, all the pleasure will be gone.

    FORBES: How to Use Temptation to Strengthen Your Willpower

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