But for those not yet willing to shell out thousands of dollars for their own home 3D-printer, Shapeways offers another path to bring software models into reality, asking consumers and retailers to upload their designs shipping the results back to them, printed on high-end machines with a level of precision and in materials that no consumer 3D printer can yet achieve.

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Whelan says self-help advice is especially relevant when it comes to job seeking for a generation that was reared on the idea that the path to affluence would be smooth, but has discovered a different reality.

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The assumption that any regulation of firearms sets us on the path to confiscation of weapons is not only ludicrous on its face, it ignores all political reality.

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The reality is that few psychology majors move on to graduate school--and the career path for the rest of the group: not so rich.

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History demonstrates, however, that the illusory high-revenue path will be undermined in reality by low-growth economic performance created by tax disincentives to work, save, invest and take entrepreneurial risks.

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