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Along the North Shore, Gloucester ($7.50 round trip on the T's Rockport line) was once a major fishing center. Today the town fills with beach-goers in the summer...
Whaling formed the backbone of the New Bedford (Bonanza bus lines, $20 round trip) economy in the 19th century, and today the fishing fleet continues to anchor in the harbor...
Barbie may have unattainable curves, but GI Joe's pecs may prove just as demoralizing to the egos of today's preschoolers...
...Civil disobedience failed to overthrow Milosevic in the winter of 1996-97, even though there were hundreds of thousands on the streets of Belgrade," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "And today there are far more laws and restrictions against opposition activity." In addition, the opposition is bedeviled by the divisions in its ranks. Vuk Draskovic, the opposition leader of the 1996 protest movement who later went into Milosevic?s cabinet as deputy prime minister -- and was later fired for his dissenting views at the height of the Kosovo conflict -- dismissed Tuesday?s protest as the work of small...
...Today's workers need soft skills even more than technical expertise. Fully 80% of a diverse group of senior executives recently polled by staffing organization Select Appointments North America said they want employees to be good listeners. They would also like them to interact well with others and to solve problems effectively. The skills are coincidentally the ones they find most lacking in the work force. While technology forces workers to communicate more often with more people, more quickly than ever, managers in particular must be able to hear what others are saying, since they spend 60% of their...