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...number of European Muslims grows - from 12 million a decade ago to 20 million today - so does the need for mosques. A 2007 report by the Italian Department for Security Information found the number of mosques in the country had grown from 351 to 735 in a mere seven years. Mosque numbers in France and Germany have also exploded. While Europe's churches sit empty or are converted into luxury lofts and schools, Muslims are building mosques in old nightclubs and supermarkets, in former sauerkraut and pharmaceutical factories and, yes, abandoned churches. As Muslims get wealthier, more confident and more...
Want to get the most out of your next brainstorming session at work? Bring in an oddball. If you can't find an oddball, try a naysayer or even a mere stranger - anyone who can keep things vaguely uncomfortable. If that sounds like a prescription for one of the worst meetings you've ever had, suck it up and go anyway. It might also be one of the most productive...
...Coke.) Better to bring in at least one new face or dissenting voice to shake things up and challenge a few assumptions. But how much shaking does it take? As it turns out, not much. According to a new study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, the mere presence of a newcomer in any group may be all it takes to turn stagnant thinking into fresh thinking and bad ideas into good ones. (See pictures of office cubicles from around the world...
...Sunday after bonding over Zoe’s My 3 Sons (some breakfast meal at a restaurant) on Saturday night.”Sophomore skipper John Stokes and junior crew Michelle Konstadt took third overall in the B division, finishing with 118 points on the weekend, just a mere two points out of second place. All but one of their top five showings came within their last six races, as the duo matched its A division teammates in finishing well and securing team victory for the Crimson on its home waters.In the C division, senior skipper Jon Garrity split time...
...sexuality, can feminists ever agree on how to evaluate representations ranging from Blake and Leighton’s relatively subdued ice-cream fellatio to more extreme pornographic images and films? Who has the power to define which representations are to be condemned for affirming the instrumentality of women as mere means to male satisfaction, and which are to be lauded for enhancing female autonomy? And by what objective criteria can we evaluate the righteousness of these categorizations...