Through its 198 chapters across the country, the First Tee provides low-cost access to courses and driving ranges, free clubs, summer camps and a highly structured system of golf, etiquette and life-skill lessons designed for kids as young as 5 and as old as 18.

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Ranger Nic Bullivant said snow-holing had traditionally been a life-saving skill learned by mountain guides, rescue teams, walkers and military personnel to protect themselves in bad weather.

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The good news from the study is that while resilience is the key factor to overcoming great obstacles that are all-too-often part and parcel of daily life for the disadvantaged and at-risk population, it is a skill set that can be learned.

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The report, published next week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition, studied how volunteers responded to real-life stories chosen to stimulate admiration for virtue or skill, or compassion for physical or social pain. iReport.com : Growing pains for Twitter, Facebook?

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The match had a typical end-of-season feel although Paul Merson, who was named Villa's player-of-the-year before the match, brought the crowd to life with a great piece of skill.

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In general, jurors can draw on everyday experience to determine who is lying and who is telling the truth -- a skill everyone employs (with varying skill) in his or her daily life.

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His skill at word-play, coupled with a self-destructive and fatalistic attitude to life (in a Russian intellectual, no less) lands him a job first as a copywriter, and then as something more sinister.

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