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Bullies aren't confined to the schoolyard. Some grow out of it; others just grow older. That's what Christine Truffet-Lefebvre learned from her job at the semiconductor manufacturing equipment firm Nikon Precision Europe. For her first three years as a secretary at a plant 30 km south of Paris, she enjoyed her work - and, she says, the respect of her boss. But after Truffet-Lefebvre, now 45, was divorced in 2000, she says her manager's attitude changed. "For him, the divorce meant that I would now be free to work on evenings and weekends," she says. "When...
...University of Michigan, found that for male workers ages 25 to 29 with only a high school diploma, the average wage declined 11% from 1975 to 2002. "When I graduated from high school, my classmates who didn't want to go to college could go to the Goodyear plant and buy a house and support a wife and family," says Steve Hamilton of Cornell University's Youth and Work Program. "That doesn't happen anymore." Instead, high school grads are more likely to end up in retail jobs with low pay and minimal benefits, if any. From this...
...Paris headquarters of cementmaker Lafarge Group on Dec. 26, the devastation ran deep. The firm had a plant in Lho Nga, Indonesia, 25 km west of Banda Aceh, perilously close to the earthquake's epicenter off Sumatra. A killer wave destroyed the plant's 35 buildings as well as a seaside complex that housed 100 local employees and their families. As of last week, Lafarge had accounted for only 294 of its 625 workers based at the plant. The company responded quickly. A day after the disaster, a Lafarge team based in Indonesia flew search, rescue and medical personnel...
...best known experiment examined the effects of mindfulness on “learned helplessness” to illustrate that nursing home patients lived longer and healthier lives when they were given a plant to care...
...Terrorism that the school added another frighteningly current class last spring: the Development and Control of Weapons of Mass Destruction. For their term papers, students must assess the potential damage of an atomic, biological or chemical attack--and offer solutions. "I had students e-mailing airport and nuclear-power-plant officials," says Professor Jeff Lewis. "I had to restrain their enthusiasm...