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Germany's boardrooms have long been a cherished male preserve. But that's about to change at one of the country's biggest companies, Deutsche Telekom, which has just unveiled a radical new plan to fast-track more women into management roles. By 2015, the company has mandated that 30...
Gender quotas are new to Germany but they've been implemented elsewhere. After a heated debate, Norway passed a controversial law in 2003 requiring that 40% of all board members of publicly listed companies had to be women. The measure paid off: company boards went from just 7% female in...
How might this relate to humans? Actually, mild stress has been shown to improve learning in people; too much does the opposite. Smith wonders whether the discovery may help explain certain learning declines, like the drop-off in the ability to learn to speak a foreign language without an accent...
In New Orleans, Dr. Kristopher Kaliebe, an assistant professor at Louisiana State University who works with Drell, has telemed equipment set up in his home. Some of his time is spent videoconferencing with patients in a juvenile-detention center who have been diagnosed with such conditions as bipolar disorder, severe...
The Sinai's people are mostly Bedouin - a formerly nomadic Arab people with a distinct culture and dialect - though Mwafi is unsure of their exact percentage of the population. The Bedouin in Sinai are Egyptian and have been for as long as Sinai has been Egyptian - but that hasn't...