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...training at the office: as an expert on the prevention of workplace violence, I know that managers and supervisors set the tone in the workplace. If they are arrogant, dismissive and intimidating, then one shouldn't be surprised if the employees behave likewise with one another. The result is lower morale, high turnover, low productivity and, sometimes, threatening or violent behavior. After all, if employees feel they have lost their dignity, they may also feel they have nothing left to lose. If only managers could lead by the Golden Rule, the workplace would be a much better and safer place...
...campus party in a house rented by some lacrosse players, but high rents and police presence in Cambridge help make such situations, which are obviously subjected to less supervision than on-campus parties, less likely. Athletes at Harvard don’t receive scholarships or special admission, and the lower-pressure environment of Harvard athletics creates a situation where success does not mean idolatry for the stars of our teams. Many students probably couldn’t name a member of our men’s lacrosse team, despite its national ranking.All these factors conspire to keep Harvard athletes...
...slightly lower yield leads more open spots in the Class of 2010, “we’d love to take 50 to 100 students off the waiting list,” Fitzsimmons said...
Vultaggio found his next business, iced tea, through his most trusted adviser: his gut. On a frigid February day in 1990, a Snapple delivery truck interrupted his sales pitch with a lower Manhattan store owner. "I'm knocking myself out trying to get a five-case order of beer, and this guy is taking 100 iced teas," Vultaggio says. "What am I doin'? I said, I gotta go into the tea business." That was his million-dollar focus group. "Yeah, I was focusing," he says. "Wow, that...
...drinkers should be getting screened earlier than ever for colorectal cancer. Doctors usually recommend that patients schedule their first exam on or near their 50th birthday. If you get a colonoscopy--considered the gold standard of screenings because it allows doctors to examine the whole length of the lower intestine and snip off any precancerous polyps they find--you may not need to be screened again for 10 years. If you use one of the less definitive tests-- a flexible sigmoidoscopy, barium enema or simple stool analysis--you should get tested more frequently...