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Whether these changes can be sustained over time is another question. Gawande and his colleagues note in the study that a phenomenon called the "Hawthorne effect" may be largely responsible for the checklist's success. The effect was named for a series of experiments designed to determine how to increase productivity at a factory in Chicago. All of the tactics implemented by the study leaders improved worker output during the experiments - but researchers realized that the effect they were really measuring was a boost in motivation among workers who knew others were watching...
...Having more than weathered the dreadfully bad 2008, Subaru officials aren't planning on lowering sales this year. At Detroit's North American International Auto Show, Subaru unveiled a concept car that will likely evolve into a midsize sedan version of its Legacy. And on a broader note, Doll says that more available credit and Barack Obama's stimulus package should get additional buyers into showrooms. Of course, if all else fails, there are always those folks who bought an Outback 7.3 years ago - and are ready to return...
...intercultural and intracultural pragmatism. Article 7 of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders asserts that “everyone has the right, individually and in association with others, to develop and discuss new human rights ideas and principles and to advocate their acceptance.” The HRW notes that LGBT activists, such as Mr. Diadji Diouf and his colleagues, have a high propensity for victimization via violation of Article 7.But what does this mean to the Senegalese state and the 94 percent of its citizens following Shar’ia law? To them, gay rights assaults Islamic virtue...
...similar proportion: 22 percent from a June 30 value of $36.9 billion. Yale University also reported losing one quarter of its endowment, projecting a decrease from $22 billion to $17 billion by year’s end. Unlike the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which Harvard Magazine has noted is comparable in size to Princeton as a whole, Princeton has not announced a hiring freeze. “We should not put at risk the foundations we have so recently laid,” Tilghman wrote of staff recruiting. Princeton will continue searches for new faculty already authorized. Any requests...
...outdoor sporting event - and looking like, as one blogger put it, a "laid-back Satanic cult" - have appeared during prime time on such cable stalwarts as ESPN, Comedy Central and CNN, becoming so ubiquitous that everyone from Jay Leno to a gazillion people on YouTube is taking note. Witness this "Cult of the Snuggie" parody, for example...