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...course, a pillow fight with strangers would be nothing without even stranger outfits. People showed up in everything from matching Sharpie-d out t-shirts to giraffe headdresses, shamu hats to wrestling masks. Costume winners for the day? These onesie wonders...
...Istanbul. The case pits the state against a shadowy ultra-right-wing network allegedly led by retired generals. Prosecutors accuse the group of staging bomb attacks and assassinations in a bid to overthrow the ruling Justice and Development Party and create a pretext for military rule. Turkey is no stranger to coups - the military has stepped in to push the government this way or that three times in as many decades. As recently as 2007, a veiled threat prompted early elections...
...director of Harvard University Health Services. Harvard already requires hand sanitizer in every dining hall and gloves on every dining hall worker to curb the potential spread of disease. Although many schools have now taken the necessary precautions to stop future epidemics, the Norovirus is no stranger to college campuses across the country. Within the past year, it has already infected Georgetown, USC, and Hope College in Michigan...
Want to get the most out of your next brainstorming session at work? Bring in an oddball. If you can't find an oddball, try a naysayer or even a mere stranger - anyone who can keep things vaguely uncomfortable. If that sounds like a prescription for one of the worst meetings you've ever had, suck it up and go anyway. It might also be one of the most productive...
...include a habitual table pounder or eye-roller. The outsider, say Liljenquist and her co-authors, can be someone as subtly different as a member of the accounting department meeting with the sales team or an employee in the branch office visiting the headquarters. If adding that stranger causes you to squirm more, try to put up with it; it may also prompt you to think better than you realize...