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The ones that do, like Pittsburgh, Pa., are reluctant to make the raw data public. "Get in the habit of reporting that, and you can create controversy," says Robert McNeilly Jr., the city's police chief. He says random quarter-to-quarter fluctuations in the data would produce misleading headlines...
It is easy to believe that racial profiling is a serious problem in America. It fits the American profile, and now politicians have stepped forward to give it credence as a problem. But is it a real problem? Is dark skin a shorthand for criminality in the mind of America...
The value of the lone wolf has fallen in direct proportion to the rising complexity of doing business on a global scale. No one can create or market a product alone anymore, so interrelatedness is a necessity. To foster it, companies have shifted how they evaluate and reward people. Increasingly...
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A more balanced approach means looking not just at the risks of change but also at the potential benefits and the cost of inertia. For example, 40 countries are not on track to meet the UN Millennium Goal of halving the proportion of people suffering from hunger by 2015. Twenty...