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...work, do you feel a little like the late Rodney Dangerfield? Well, you're not alone. Almost 80% of employees believe they get no respect at work, according to a report recently published in one of the Academy of Management's journals--and 60% think the situation is getting worse. The data, collected in three studies over eight years at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, also reveal that 20% of employees say they are victims of incivility on a weekly basis. Should managers be kinder and gentler? You bet, says author Christine Porath, assistant...
...couldn't be more appropriate. Although I am a physically fit black man, I still must resort to exercise, medication and dietary changes to battle hypertension. Yet there is a growing debate in medical circles about the ethics of race-based medical research. I only wish my younger brother Rodney were here to participate in the argument. He was in great shape, lifted weights, had nearly zero body fat and lived a healthy lifestyle with his family. Rodney went to bed a few weeks ago, feeling as if he simply had the flu. He died in his sleep. An autopsy...
...couldn't be more appropriate. Although I am a physically fit black man, I still must resort to exercise, medication and dietary changes to battle hypertension. Yet there is a growing debate in medical circles about the ethics of race-based medical research. I only wish my younger brother Rodney were here to participate in the argument. He was in great shape, lifted weights, had nearly zero body fat and lived a healthy lifestyle with his family. Rodney went to bed a few weeks ago, feeling as if he simply had the flu. He died in his sleep. An autopsy...
...Comprehensively-minded Kargman cites Anna Deveare-Smith, author of one-woman show Twilight: Los Angeles, as one of her major inspirations. Deveare-Smith successfully gets into the head of every character involved in the Rodney King beatings of 1992 through the study of sociology and psychology. “Harvard has an opportunity to bring in classes from literature, history, sociology and psychology, all of which will give me a much better grasp on being able to play truthfully the characters I imagine,” Kargman says...
...feeling of being needed. The aged there are made to feel they are necessary to their families for functions ranging from baby sitting to being a toastmaster at frequent dinners - a Georgian specialty. The researchers found that filling a need can help people overcome life's adversities. Rodney Angove Mountain View, California, U.S. The Joy of Sox! My great-grandfather Harry Frazee, who owned the Red Sox [Nov. 8] from 1916 to '23, did not sell Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees to finance a Broadway play, as the legendary Curse of the Bambino would have it. He kept...