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Collins' life, although told many times in the press during the genome race, remains appealingly weird and inspiring. He was born on an outhouse-equipped Virginia "dirt farm" - but his Yale-educated parents had earlier returned to the land as part of a rural-community experiment under Eleanor Roosevelt's...
Evans is the tip of the spear on what may be the most ambitious business effort in the 231-year history of the U.S. Army: an attempt to adopt a management theory, Lean Six Sigma, across the entire service. More comprehensive than the attempt in the 1960s by Defense Secretary...
The smart answer to that would be - because we?re smart! The serious answer would be that we were pushing the envelope at the right place, and we were lucky. We did a particular experiment that gave us the insight to change our methods, and we were lucky we did...
Skilling, a former senior adviser in his country's Treasury, has distilled lessons from the Kiwis' experience. First, good economic policies are necessary but not sufficient. The country's market-based reforms over two decades have not brought a dividend in higher living standards. Although its leaders have talked a...
Providence is for rebels. the capital of the U.S. state of Rhode Island was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a stubborn Baptist banished from Massachusetts for criticizing that colony's government. He saw his exile not as punishment, but as a sign of God's "many providences." Dissenters would...