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...women’s swimming team will continue training over winter break in St. Croix from Dec. 28 to Jan. 4 and the men’s team will travel to Dorado, Puerto Rico from...
...Croix facility does not offer diving boards, so Harvard’s women divers will accompany their male counterparts to Pasadena, Calif...
...last dropwindsonde. Over the radio, Parrish's voice signals the end of the mission. By now, even Parrish is getting weary of the nine-hour flights that have been taking off daily for eight days running, ever since Ivan blew up into a hurricane, not far from St. Croix. Attacked by fierce winds and savage rains, NOAA's fleet of hurricane hunters (two WP-3Ds and a Gulfstream IV) is showing signs of stress as well. The protective coating on the stabilizer of the plane I'm riding in is beginning to erode, for example. And while...
...Born and raised on the sunbaked Caribbean island of St. Croix, where his smiling visage now adorns a giant billboard at the airport, Duncan's first sport was swimming, not hoops. Like his older sister Tricia, who swam backstroke in the 1988 Olympics, he was a high ranked amateur in the 400 meter freestyle. But after Hurricane Hugo destroyed the island's only Olympic pool in the fall of 1989 - and his mother Ione died of breast cancer several months later - Duncan never again competed in the water. He only started playing organized basketball in high school...
Many companies try nonfinancial incentives, but clumsily. Team-building junkets (even to St. Croix) don't work, nor do positive-attitude lapel buttons. Successful motivation requires careful thinking about how to encourage accomplishments that make a difference to the bottom line and how to tailor incentives to individual employees. After a manager in the Tampa, Fla., office of Aetna, for example, started pizza parties tied to quality measures for rank-and-file workers, backlogs fell sharply. (Katzenbach does note that pay is the best motivator for upper-level executives, whose potential earnings from bonuses and stock options are enormous...