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...president appeared to tear up when he talked about his $15 billion AIDS initiative and again, when he promised "free people will set the course of history." (Memo to the TV director of future speeches: don't focus on Tom Ridge for half a minute when the president is working his way through one of the most passionate parts of his speech...
...Players blamed the carpet for causing knee and toe injuries because the surface had no "give," although studies on injury rates were inconclusive. But in 1999 FieldTurf, based in Montreal, began mass-producing a new surface whose composition better imitates the real thing, with more resistance to wear and tear. The longer, grasslike fibers, made of a polyethylene blend, give it a more natural look and feel, while the blend of sand and rubber particles - recycled from old running shoes - that form its base are loosely packed around the blades of "grass," providing a softer cushion than real dirt...
...Mart. At the time, Palmisano had been tapped as a "high potential" leader at IBM and was serving a stint as an executive assistant to Gerstner's predecessor, John Akers, learning the ropes by shadowing the CEO. It was 1989, a few years before Gerstner arrived to tear apart IBM's insular culture, and Big Blue was still plagued by rigid hierarchies, endless meetings and wasteful trappings of executive life...
...reduce your level of stress 15% to 20%, according to Frederic Luskin, senior fellow at the Stanford University Center on Conflict and Negotiation and author of Forgive for Good: A Proven Prescription For Health and Happiness (HarperSanFrancisco). "Forgiveness is a form of resilience that reduces the wear and tear on the body and can lead to better health and better quality of life," Luskin says...
...initiate contact, says Naomi Drew, an author of four books on conflict resolution who is based in Lawrenceville, N.J. "Start the process of reaching out by venting all of your anger about this person in a letter to yourself," Drew says. "Write down all the nasty, disgusting stuff and tear the letter into a million pieces or burn...