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...break the ice with his new charges, Colgan made a point of hanging out in the platoon's common room--a rare occurrence in military culture, where social separation of officers from their soldiers is still the norm--and asked not to be addressed as sir. Says Talimeliyor: "When we first met, I thought, Man, this L.T., he talks a lot. I thought he was going to be annoying." A former enlisted man, Colgan could relate to the soldiers in his command. "He knew how to talk to the enlisted guys like normal people," says Whiteside...
Stock-option grants and performance-based bonuses are spreading globally, even as they come under scrutiny in the U.S., which sparked the trend. Long-term incentives--mostly stock options--are for the first time the norm for senior positions around the world, according to Towers Perrin's latest compensation survey. Credit (or blame) can be given to U.S. multinationals. "It got noticed, and local companies had to start following suit," says Leon Potgieter, managing principal of Towers Perrin's Global Consulting Group. Performance-based pay is spreading too, reaching further down in the corporate ranks to the likes of accountants...
...chocolate, salt is fetishized by region, and the snootier salts sell for as much as $50 a kilogram. There's gray salt, red salt, French salt, Spanish salt, Italian salt, Portuguese salt, salt with algae, salt mixed with herbs, even smoked salt. Such a wide variety was the norm up until the 20th century, when the U.S. firm Morton Salt used an evaporator to make salt white, fine and uniform, says Mark Kurlansky, author of Salt: A World History. "It's an irony of history," he says. "What saltmakers wanted to do was to have this consistent, pure, white salt...
Rather, he argued, religion is a societal norm that stems from children’s psychological tendencies...
...education, complete with preventative measures that extend beyond abstinence? Shouldn’t HRL be out there with Students For Choice, handing out condoms and educating students about the various methods of birth control? To be effective they must be proactive. Accept that premarital sex is a societal norm and educate people about safety and responsibility. Or, preach abstinence—but don’t be surprised when people accidentally become pregnant and desire the option of an abortion...