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...customers and, increasingly, to its customers in China too. Joe Hatfield's new stores are thriving, in part because Wal-Mart is spreading a management style that many of its young Chinese employees find liberating. In most Chinese companies, managers typically share little information with employees, and promotions usually depend on whom you know. At the Sam's Club outside Beijing, it's different. Alan Li, 31, the store's deputy manager, encourages workers to contribute ideas about efficiency, and managers tell employees what's going on. "It doesn't matter who you know here," says Li, a high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wal-Mart Nation | 6/19/2005 | See Source »

...settling down in my office for a 1985 European championship game--only to watch Juventus fans get crushed to death when some Liverpool supporters rioted. Through long experience, my family has come to know that their chances of having a vaguely pleasant husband and father on any given Sunday depend largely on how Liverpool fared the previous day. But what on earth makes this--let's admit it--pretty unsophisticated devotion to the fortunes of men I've never met and don't really want to so powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hopelessly Devoted | 6/12/2005 | See Source »

Despite the favoritism issues in nearly every family, dissension is not inevitable, no matter which child becomes the caregiver. Good relations do not require equal contributions to caregiving, observes sociologist Matthews, but depend on siblings' doing what is reasonable, given their location and their other responsibilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Cares More for Mom? | 6/12/2005 | See Source »

...It’s hard for Republicans, who depend on a right-wing base. If you know that 25 to 30 percent of people believe that life begins at conception, then it’s tough to vote for stem cell research,” says Corlette...

Author: By Risheng Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Culturing Support for Stem Cells | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...last few years, the University has announced a number of major initiatives that will depend on Harvard’s continuing financial success...

Author: By Nicholas M. Ciarelli and Alexander H. Greeley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Finding the Path to Growth | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

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