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...provinces. But last week, the country's top epidemologist sent out an "SOS" to the global health authorities. A medical mission from the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network was set to arrive in Manila today and Tuesday. WHO officials in Manila said the four-person team will comprise two epidemiologists and an expert each in clinical management and leptospirosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manila, After the Floods, Battles 'Rat Fever' | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

Global health experts addressed the potentially devastating implications of global hunger and encouraged students to raise local awareness at a symposium held in the Science Center yesterday evening. Participants in the four-person discussion, entitled “The Ingredients of Food Security,” included Howard A. Zucker, the former assistant director-general of the World Health Organization, along with colleagues in economics, political science, and humanitarian outreach. Zucker began the event by asking attendees to consider the amount of food that goes to waste during an average restaurant dinner. “Now just imagine...

Author: By Roxanne J. Fequiere, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Experts Debate Solutions for Hunger | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...findings come from an imaginative experiment conducted by a group of business professors from Stanford, Brigham Young and Northwestern universities. The investigators first recruited 200 student volunteers from various fraternity and sorority houses and divided them into 50 same-sex, four-person teams. The teams were brought in two at a time and given 20 minutes to solve an imaginary murder mystery, relying on made-up evidence and detective interviews. One of the suspects in the mystery was indeed guilty, which meant that the test did have a right answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Office Oddball Is Good for Business | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...room this year into a “European discotheque, equipped with an excellent sound system whose speakers have been known to blow out on occasion.”Pforzheimer: The Bell TowerRight beneath Pfoho’s belltower sits this four-bedroom suite. It technically has four residents, but it also connects to two other four-person duplexes which, when hosting a blocking group of 12, makes it the largest party suite on campus. Slanted skylights grace the ceiling of the giant common room with its built-in bar. “Our space is great because it?...

Author: By Catherine A. Zielinski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Where the Party At: Harvard's Sweetest Party Suites | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...cattle leader can take control of employees, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, devised a pair of tests. Cameron Anderson, an associate professor of organizational behavior and industrial relations, along with doctoral candidate Gavin Kilduff, recruited a group of 68 graduate students and divided them into four-person teams. To eliminate the wild card of gender, the teams were either all-male or all-female. Each group was given the task of organizing an imaginary nonprofit environmental organization; the group that did best - as determined by the researchers - would win a $400 prize. While the prize was real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Competence: Is Your Boss Faking It? | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

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