Word: developable
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...talent wars heat up again, and a growing number of workers opt to be independent contractors or to job hop at will, managers will also have to work harder than ever to retain people and develop all of them--not just standouts--to their fullest potential. Rather than dampening the rush toward free agency, many observers believe the recent ax wielding will only encourage it. "It's not that everybody is dying to be a free agent," says Bruce Tulgan, author of Winning the Talent Wars (W.W. Norton & Co.). "It's that people are realizing they have no choice...
...that age—like the British Museum in the mid-18th century, which was concerned with culture broadly stated, not just with art. The art museums of the French Revolution made available aristocratic collections to the people. During the 19th century, nations felt compelled to do so and developed the resources to do so. As museums developed, institutions of patronage broke down. In their place develop private galleries and individual bourgeois patrons become dominant in the second half of the 19th century. But artists want their works, if collected by private individuals, to end up in public institutions...
Obese individuals who consume more dairy products may be less likely to develop risk factors for diabetes, according to a recently published study by Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Children’s Hospital in Boston...
...Harvard class. The company’s first product is an injection-based pet sterilization system that avoids the need for surgery. The idea for the system came from a concept that Acuta’s organizers studied in Engineering Sciences 143, a class that teaches how to develop a biotech start-up firm...
...years, frogs with missing legs or extra eyes have been turning up in ponds across the U.S. Now scientists wonder if trace amounts of weed killer in rainwater may be partly to blame. A new report shows that male frogs exposed to altrazine--the best-selling agricultural herbicide--can develop multiple male sex organs or both male and female organs. Scientists think that even low concentrations of the weed killer--one-thirtieth the level allowed in drinking water--can cause the male hormone testosterone to morph into the female hormone estrogen. Does altrazine affect humans? No one really knows...