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Team-building, which some participants regard as re-education's perkier cousin, takes workers out of a familiar environment to coax them to think differently, view one another differently or just let off steam. PIU's version operates on the intriguing premise that intra-office communication improves when employees barrel down a 20-ft. (about 6 m) slide or whack one another with inflatable jousting bats...
...course of the last few weeks, the red-bricked walls of Harvard Square—along with its shiny metal surfaces—have been hit. Plastered within an archway on an outside wall of The Garage, a Muslim woman totes a gun with a flower in its barrel. Next to The Gap on Brattle Street, a woman decked in roses stares. Variously themed red, white, and black stickers have also been cropping up in the Square, all adorned with Fairey’s signature image of Andre the Giant and all with the same imperative: Obey...
...last? Poor Venezuelans know from experience the pain of the bust that follows a boom, and with oil hovering around $40 a barrel some of Chávez's socialist agenda will surely face cuts after the referendum. Many people have begun asking why the radical who so boldly stands up to the U.S. can't confront the violent crime that plagues the country and leaves scores dead each weekend. "I know in my heart that life is better here than it was 10 years ago," says Tobías Caravallo, 42, who owns an electronics repair shop...
...reads basic economics anymore. It has been widely understood for centuries that government does not create wealth; it merely redistributes it. The stimulus plan can be summarized as follows: we are going to borrow a trillion dollars from foreigners and spend it on a mile-long list of pork-barrel projects that we don't immediately need (or else we would have found another way to pay for them) and hope this gets us out of the recession. Stimulus won't solve the fundamental economic problems of this country: decades of low savings coupled with ravenous consumption, fueled by cheap...
...Medicare reimbursements to drug companies who advertise to consumers? Or required them to help fund some kind of public health or education initiative? "The pharmaceutical companies are most nervous about a financial requirement for those who are doing DTC advertising," Bolling says. "It would have companies over a barrel. That's where it's really going to hurt." Things may be quiet on the drug front right now, but with a new Democratic President and Congress in place, Big Pharma should stock up on the painkillers...