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Becoming a principal seemed the most effective way to accomplish his goals, and in 2003 Kennedy was accepted into the first class at the new Leadership Academy. The program was intense--more than a full year of rigorous training in how to be a good leader, motivating staff, analyzing student...
These technologies may become an intimate part of our lives sooner than we think. "It's not so futuristic," says Stanford neuropsychologist Judy Illes, "to imagine an employer able to test for who is a good team player, who a leader or a follower." Before such scans are used, neuroethicists...
Variations of experiments like this one, examining infant attention, have been a standard tool of developmental psychology ever since the Swiss pioneer of the field, Jean Piaget, started experimenting on his children in the 1920s. Piaget's work led him to conclude that infants younger than 9 months have no...
But what if-just for argument's sake-you got insanely rigorous about it. You went to all the big-name authors in the world-Franzen, Mailer, Wallace, Wolfe, Chabon, Lethem, King, 125 of them- and got each one to cough up a top-10 list of the greatest books...
But even that is easier said than done. How can ordinary consumers be sure that their contributions toward, say, building solar greenhouses in the Himalayas is money well spent? Without global or even national regulators becoming involved, standards in the offset industry have become a free-for-all. It seems...