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...human resource management at Britain's Portsmouth Business School, 15% of British workers are victims of repeated bullying. In France, as many as 9% of workers are thought to be targeted, while in Germany more than 11% are bullied during at least one stage of their careers. Cary Cooper, professor of organizational psychology and health at the U.K.'s Lancaster University Management School, estimates that lost productivity from bullying costs developed economies around 1% of gross domestic product. Who's to blame? More often than not it's a stressed boss venting frustration on subordinates. Against a backdrop of slow...
...Existing data shows it is absolutely possible to be overweight, active and healthy,” said Timothy Church, Medical Director at the Cooper Institute, a large non-profit research and teaching institute focusing on diet and health. “We are overly fixated as a society on obesity, which misses the point of the problem, which is poor diet coupled with sedentary lifestyles...
...visited the CIA outpost should read the debriefing reports but stay out of the interrogation room. Abu Zubaydah soon began to sing and, among other things, quickly fingered Khalid Shaikh Mohammed as the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. --Reported by Brian Bennett, Perry Bacon Jr., Timothy J. Burger, Matthew Cooper, Elaine Shannon and Mark Thompson/Washington and Mitch Frank/New York
Last June, Harvard announced it had hired the planning and design firm Cooper, Robertson to create a master plan for the Allston campus, working with a team that will include architect Frank O. Gehry and incorporating the goals outlined in the community task force report. The campus will be centered around science, professional schools and undergraduate housing...
...There's a tremendously heightened sense of structural safety," says Anthony Vidler, dean of architecture at the Cooper Union in New York City. "Structures used to be designed like bridges, perfectly designed to meet the required need, such as getting a person from one side to another. Now we have a lot of redundancy in structures. If one thing fails, then another will hold, and if that fails, another will hold. It's akin to having five or six engines on a jet plane...