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APPOINTED. DONALD POWELL, 64, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and former Texas banker and fund raiser for George W. Bush; as federal hurricane reconstruction czar; two months after Katrina thrashed the Gulf Coast; in Washington. To critics who questioned Powell's lack of experience in disaster relief, his new boss, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, said hurricane victims deserved his "leadership" and "optimism...
When asked what career tool they lack but most need, minority women executives had the same answer: mentors. Although 66% desire mentoring from senior colleagues with similar ethnic or cultural backgrounds, 29% lack any such mentors...
...less developed countries are very vulnerable to the avian-influenza pandemic that is expected to spread around the world [Oct. 17]. Those countries lack the means to fight the flu. There are millions of chickens in small areas like the island of Java in Indonesia. Should the flocks become infected and the bird-flu virus mutate and spread to human beings, it would put Indonesia's 220 million people at risk...
...could easily say there are some forms of racism today. But I choose not to make it an excuse. We think about lack of knowledge, lack of opportunity and lack of access. But I'm going to provide a solution because someday I'm going to wake up and say, "I'm here." So don't say it can't be done without the Harvard degree, without the friend of a friend. I don't want to be labeled as a black executive. No. I'm a great executive, and I run a great division. I'm not the executive...
Figuring out why the fire went out is the first step. Assuming that a kid doesn't suffer from an emotional or learning disability, or isn't involved in some family crisis at home, many educators attribute a sudden lack of motivation to a fear of failure or peer pressure that conveys the message that doing well academically somehow isn't cool. "Kids get so caught up in the moment-to-moment issue of will they look smart or dumb, and it blocks them from thinking about the long term," says Carol Dweck, a psychology professor at Stanford. "[You have...