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DIED. JACK NEWFIELD, 66, award-winning author and investigative reporter for New York City's pioneering alternative weekly the Village Voice and other publications; of kidney cancer; in New York City. A crusader for victims of nursing-home neglect and lead poisoning, he helped bring about the conviction of numerous city political leaders for corruption and exposed abuses of power in his annual "10 Worst" lists of judges and landlords...
Coach U is by far the largest coach-training institute, but there are at least 12 others. They include the Academy for Coach Training in Bellevue, Wash., and the Newfield Network in Silver Spring, Md.; both offer in-person workshops as well as teleclasses. Coaching's rise is just beginning, predicts Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, a research scientist at M.I.T. who studies workplace change. "It's a vehicle for the transfer of knowledge and skills. And in a knowledge-based economy, it will be increasingly important...