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...Moderately messy systems outperform extremely orderly systems," says Eric Abrahamson, Columbia University professor of management and co-author of A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder (Little, Brown). Abrahamson, a scholar of organizational behavior who admits to being a bit of a mess, says the costs of maintaining order are often overlooked. He and co-author David Freedman make the case that Americans' obsession with neatness has got us so frazzled about the slightest clutter that we're needlessly draining time, money and emotion from our lives in the hapless pursuit of order. Don't spend two hours...
...Sarah Wells, senior public policy director for Women in Government, which champions the mandatory vaccination legislation, said that in addition to Kentucky and Michigan, at least eight other states and the District of Columbia are weighing making the vaccine mandatory this year. "We know that cervical cancer is 100% preventable, we know what causes it," Wells said. "We also know that by taking this vaccine young women can prevent two strains of HPV that together cause 70% of all cervical cancer cases. That's why we have made it one of our priorities...
...Zhang staged Turandot in 1997. Now he's hooked up with his old friend Tan Dun ? they knew each other in the early 80s, before the budding composer left China to study at Columbia University and devise his own musical entente between China and the West? for what was probably the Met's most eagerly anticipated original production of the new millennium. Tan Dun's alchemic mixture of influences might produce an opera to span the globe: real world music. The Met promised the largest production since its War and Peace, suggesting that Zhang would take the visual splendor...
...report said Columbia envisions an espionage thriller "exploring the collision between the deep rooted Russian power structure enforced by the KGB ... and the new wave of wild west capitalism" that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union...
...Warner Bros. is racing against director Michael Mann and Columbia Pictures, which has agreed to pay $1.5 million for the rights to another book being co-written by the former spy's widow Marina Litvinenko, and Alex Goldfarb, a close friend, Variety reported later on its Web site. The book is expected to be published in May by Simon & Schuster's Free Press imprint, the report said...