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...decade later, it still shows up on best-seller lists. Indeed, Who Moved My Cheese? has become the best-selling business book ever, with more than 22 million copies sold worldwide in 37 languages. That's bigger than Good to Great and In Search of Excellence, case-study-laden books that examine corporate success in detail. There is a cult of Cheese, populated by readers (some of them CEOs) who extol the virtues of the book and claim that it has changed their workplace and even their personal life. "I love that book!" says Vijay Govindarajan, a professor at Dartmouth...
...very forces of Islamist extremism responsible for his wife's assassination were behind the September bombing of Islamabad's Marriott Hotel. The militancy once sponsored by the Pakistani military as a foreign policy tool now threatens to abort Pakistan's sputtering democracy. There has never been a stronger case for firm and united action by the governments of both India and Pakistan to cauterize the cancer in their midst...
...case for such a new status is compelling. As mere property, animals can be caged on zoos and farms, pushed into painful shows in circuses and rodeos, and mutilated in laboratories. And when disasters strike, property is simply left behind—witness the thousands of pigs who drowned in their crates when floods hit Iowa this summer, and the farmers who subsequently collected insurance payouts on their sentient losses...
...it’s always brought up to end debate,” said Gordon W. Braxton, a prevention specialist in the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response. “Today we want to use it as a conversation starter. To ask if this is the case, what can we then do?” The panel was equally divided along this nature-nurture line. Both biology professor David A. Haig and anthropology professor Richard W. Wrangham—the author of “Demonic Males”—primarily cited nature as the source...
...Responsibility for the attacks remains unclear. According to the BJP, this is a clear-cut case: Muslim fanatics from Pakistan attacked India because they hate democracy and Hindus. It’s possible it’s that simple, but the odds are laughably low. Who knows? Much evidence points to Lakshar-e-Taiba, a covert fundamentalist group, but it’s complicated. Questions about the attacks abound: Why were the jihadist assassins were drunk and high on cocaine? Why did they deliberately murder Hemant Karkare, a man who ousted Hindu extremists as the real culprits in previous incidents...