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...going to be: Betty the B or Betty Crocker? What's at stake is the definition of appropriate behavior for women in the workplace. The emergence of The Power of Nice philosophy signals that traditional female attributes such as niceness, cooperation and intuition are finding their place as respected attributes. Reason: the greatly increased presence of women in the workplace is inevitably exerting its influence on the alpha-male behavior that once ruled. The number of women in the workforce has more than doubled since 1970, chipping away at the "tough girls get the executive suite" ideal, at least...
...classes that fulfill them. A class that examines literature should count for Literature and Arts A; likewise, a class that studies the behavior of people and institutions should count as Social Analysis. The Core was created for students, not students for the Core. Ultimately, only students have a stake in their own liberal education, and because of this, it should be the students who have the power...
...central government has prioritized cleaning up its polluted rivers and has pledged vast sums for the purpose - one plan is to flush the Yellow with water diverted from the cleaner Yangtze - enforcement of environmental laws at the local level remains spotty at best. Local government officials often have a stake in the very factories responsible for the pollution. Typically, officials from Beijing announce a plan to visit, and their local counterparts scramble like frat boys preparing for a parental visit after a keg party. The mess is temporarily tidied and offending factories closed for a few days, but when...
...lies will always be easier than spotting liars, but the U.S. is hoping to decrease the deceiver's advantage with new lie-detection technology [Sept. 18]. Could gadgetry expose the fabrications of politicians? Our Oct. 5, 1992, cover story addressed the elusive nature of truth when power is at stake...
...that Prop. 87 is a "limited, one-time extraction fee" that levels the playing field for alternative energy by providing the same sort of incentives that big oil, natural gas and coal have long enjoyed. Politics aside, investors like Khosla know going green means there's far more at stake than heaps of risk capital...