Word: researching
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...such setting, teens establish a predictable social hierarchy, says Tom Dishion, director of research at the Child and Family Center at the University of Oregon, who was not involved with the study. The kids who have behaved worse than others - committing robbery, for instance, vs. smoking cigarettes - earn the most credibility with their peer group, which encourages further bad behavior. "That story [about robbing someone] has a function of making that kid more interesting. He or she gets a lot of attention. [These kids] become higher in the social hierarchy...
...potential challenger to Apple's own iTunes music player, which iPhone owners use to listen to their downloaded tunes. "Apple has made it clear in the past that iPhone apps should enhance the experience, not compete with its core functionality," says Mark Mulligan, a London-based analyst with Forrester Research...
...Edgar Prince, a wealthy and influential Michigan Republican who helped found the Family Research Council in the late 1980s...
...just how potentially fragile the insurance companies' support really is. "It's like a ball, and when you start pulling on one piece of string, a lot of it unravels," says Diane Rowland, executive vice president of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit health-policy research organization...
...independence from political meddling. "If you look at what she's done since taking her job, you realize Anne Lauvergeon had the drive, creativity and vision to assemble all these parts into a single unit to be ready for a nuclear renaissance that she saw coming," says Ben Elias, research analyst for Sterne, Agee & Leach in New York. "There are very few CEOs in her league...