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...KEEP EVERYONE YOU KNOW IN THE LOOP Over the course of the week, Ward kept a list of jobs he was working on: about 16 made it to the point of having a conversation with the person who was hiring, but then no further. As things changed each day, over the 12 to 15 hours he was devoted to job-hunting daily he sent out updates via Twitter, Facebook and Gmail to let all of his friends and contacts know who had been helpful. "It was the equivalent of sending a thank-you letter after an interview," says Ward...
...battles carefully - in itself a valuable political skill - and they saw Tiananmen as a cause worth the agitation. The principal of my primary school, who addressed us soon after the Tiananmen drama unfolded, warned us to ignore the protests and the marches, saying, "You're kids - what do you know about politics?" He was adopting the stance of an anxious educator, but he did not represent the moral tone of the city - not then...
Kaiser's message to all of the groups is to resist the temptation to cut their programming and their profile. When times are bad, it's crucial to make yourself interesting and vital and to let everybody know you're there. "Organizations that are cutting performances and marketing are going to be the losers," he warns. He also cautions them against reaching for the most familiar programming--Beethoven's Fifth! The Nutcracker! Grease!--in the hope of drawing guaranteed crowds. "I talked to an opera company recently that has done some adventurous programming," he says. "But this season they were...
Second Wavers know the idea of pharmaceutical research on pregnant women is a moral, not to mention legal, minefield, which is why they advocate starting small by analyzing the amount of medication circulating in the bloodstream of pregnant women who are already taking prescription drugs out of necessity. A program launched in 2004 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is doing a few studies of this kind in four cities - Galveston, Texas; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Seattle; and D.C. - where flyers placed in obstetricians' offices seek pregnant women taking prescription drugs who are willing to stay in a hospital...
...Tricks of the Trade Each interrogator has his own idea of how to run an interrogation. Soufan likes to research his captive as thoroughly as possible before entering the interrogation room. "If you can get them to think you know almost everything to know about them - their families, their friends, their movements - then you've got an advantage," he says. "Because then they're thinking, 'Well, this guy already knows so much, there's no point in resisting ... I might as well tell him everything.'" When Abu Zubaydah tried to conceal his identity after his capture, Soufan stunned...