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Those are questions brothers Chip and Dan Heath parse in their upcoming book, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. The exploration follows from a class Chip, 43, a professor of organizational behavior, teaches at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. He comes to the topic by way of research into urban legends and conspiracy theories--ideas that are wrong but so annoyingly sticky they just won't go away. Dan, 33, draws his interest from working as an education consultant and trying to figure out what makes some teachers so effective...
...because of his death, and former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skillling has been sentenced to 24 years in prison. But if anyone thinks that means the end of the Enron legal battles, they are as mistaken as the analysts who thought the once high-flying energy trader was a blue chip with a bright future...
...attorney Chip Lewis told TIME: "Everybody wants the employees and the folks affected by the collapse of Enron to recover as much of their their losses as possible. However, I don't believe the vehicle that the government has chosen to pursue is an efficient way to do that. There's so much civil litigation out there already - now that they do not have a criminal conviction to anchor their forfeiture upon, this is nothing more than another civil suit. It's a use of taxpayer dollars to attempt to recover in a method that's really duplicative of many...
...units are federally subsidized rentals that cost from $300 to $350 a month for a one-bedroom and $484 a month for two bedrooms. The remaining 13 homes have sold for $90,000 to $100,000 for a one-bedroom and $113,200 for two. All residents chip in $150 a month for expenses, including maintenance and, when the common-house kitchen is completed, communal meals available to all. And everyone makes a commitment to help one another as they grow older...
...loss. The Crimson got off to an encouraging start. Less than 10 minutes into the game, Harvard received a goal from senior midfielder Aline Brown off a corner from junior Devon Shapiro. The corner found Brown waiting on the right post, where she was able to chip in the first goal of the afternoon, her second of the year. Had the outing continued like that, the Crimson may have handed Princeton its first Ivy League loss of the year. But the Tigers had different plans. Only two minutes later, Princeton was awarded a free hit just past the midfield line...