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...right--the authors dive into the nitty-gritty details of engineering a better team: how to reach outward, build a support structure, be more flexible and navigate a corporate culture that might be less than enthusiastic about border crossing. They use examples from teams at Microsoft, Motorola, Toyota and Southwest Airlines and describe in depth how a team at Merrill Lynch created a distressed-equities desk that spanned debt and equity--something that had never been done before--one of some hundred X-team projects Ancona has helped foster...
...British Environment Secretary Hilary Benn said a second herd of cattle had tested positive for the virus less than two miles from where a first infected group was found on Friday, on a farm some 30 miles (48 km) southwest of London. Health officials emphasized that the outbreak occurred within an enforced "protection zone" around the first incident, and there was still no evidence of wider spread of the disease...
Onlookers might easily mistake it for a murder scene, and the yellow tape now sealing access roads to a farm in Surrey, southwest of London, does indeed signal that a killer may again be on the loose in the U.K. Six years ago, foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), an infectious illness that targets animals with cloven hooves - pigs and ruminants such as cattle, sheep, goats and deer - devastated the British farming industry and British tourism and battered the reputation of Tony Blair's government. Ministers reacted too slowly when the disease was first detected and compounded that mistake by giving...
Talese had apparently come to the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest in Grapevine, Texas, ready to rumble. In an afternoon discussion on Saturday, Talese brought up the issue of Frey's memoir. Saying she was unapologetic about publishing the book, Talese said in her genteel, mid-Atlantic accent that it was Oprah who needed to apologize for her behavior in the affair. Talese argued that Frey, in the gripping manuscript he submitted, had described himself as a liar, a cheater and an addict, and under those circumstances she did not believe she was reading "the New Testament...
...explosive issue here in the southwest Virginia, which like much of Appalachia, had long suffered from a wave of addiction to the drug. More than 100 people gathered at a morning rally in a town park to tell their stories about the prescription drug before moving to the courthouse. In the afternoon, many of them would be in the courtroom, giving victim statements in front of the pharmaceutical executives and the judge...