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What are some practical ways businesses can improve performance? The do-it-yourself performance review. I have not encountered a single person who thinks performance reviews are useful, valuable or enjoyable. They take place too infrequently. If you want feedback on something, you want it pretty quickly, rather than six months later. At the end of the month, call yourself into your office, and give yourself an appraisal. How are you doing? Where are you falling short? People want to know how they're doing and I think we can assess that ourselves...
...this leaves the question of how Neanderthals got their thick-as-a-brick reputation in the first place. "The original idea of Neanderthal dumbness," says Erik Trinkaus, a paleoanthropologist at Washington University (in St. Louis, Mo.), "emerged around the turn of the last century." People back then had a stake in believing that modern humans were the pinnacle of evolution, and because Neanderthals were clearly different physically, they had to be inferior." The new work by Zilhão and his colleagues, says Trinkaus, "is just one more important piece in that puzzle that says these people may have looked...
...events, finishing first in the three-meter dive with a score of 319.73 and third in the one-meter event scoring 280.28. Ranta performed equally strong taking second in the one-meter event with 291.30 points, just four points behind the Quaker winner, Jeff Cragg. Ranta also took third place in the three-meter event...
Junior Jenny Reese led the way for the Crimson in Saturday’s springboard events. Reese finished runner-up in the one-meter with 262.20 points, only seven points behind the winner, Princeton’s Carolyn Littlefield. Sophomore Leslie Rea barely missed a second-place finish in the three-meter event by a mere 1.12 points. Reese followed Rea in fourth with 244.88 points...
...intensely hegemonic streak. Rigid codes of behavior govern everything from how to dress to the proper time of day to drink a cappuccino. Far from being a melting pot, Italy remains a three-course meal, with the pasta carefully segregated from the appetizer and main course and no place for a bowl of hummus or plate of egg rolls. "People now accept that immigrants are here," says Giuseppe Sciortino, an immigration expert and sociology professor at the University of Trento. "But they're still in denial that they are a presence that will change Italy forever...