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First came the hard-charging captains of industry and then the hired-hand executives who still gave all the orders. But the new heroes of business are bosses and workers who view themselves as partners. So writes Charles Garfield in Second to None (Business One Irwin; 454 pages; $22.95), an account of such teamwork-based firms as Michigan's Steelcase and Maryland's Preston trucking. Garfield views these companies as the vanguard of a revolution that will turn top-down corporations into democratic workplaces...
Even so, women still have not caught up with men on the mental-rotation test. Fascinated by the persistence of that gap, psychologists Irwin Silverman and Marion Eals of York University in Ontario wondered if there were any spatial tasks at which women outperformed men. Looking at it from the point of view of human evolution, Silverman and Eals reasoned that while men may have developed strong spatial skills in response to evolutionary pressures to be successful hunters, women would have needed other types of visual skills to excel as gatherers and foragers of food...
...supermodels invest salesmanship with a class and seductiveness no longer found in movie stars who dress down in blue jeans and prefer environmental preservation to nightclubbing. The top mannequins -- among them Cindy Crawford, Elaine Irwin, Karen Mulder and Claudia Schiffer -- always seem perfectly coiffed and coutured, manicured and made up. Says Jerome Bonnouvrier, head of the Paris-based Glamour agency: "Modeling has become the new Hollywood...
...only thing that should be considered is job performance," says law professor Irwin Schmerinsky of the University of Southern California. "If the courts allow firms to make decisions on potential costs, it's hard to know where the restrictions will end." Most Americans appear to endorse that view. According to a poll by the National Consumers League, 81% of Americans believe an employer has no right to refuse to hire an overweight person and 76% feel companies should not be allowed to ban smoking...
...when the 24th Division was rushed to the gulf last August, the 48th, which was finally called up on Nov. 30, was replaced by a regular Army brigade. In December the 48th was put through a rigorous desert-warfare program at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. It was not until Feb. 28, the day the gulf war ended, that the 48th was deemed fit to fight...