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...same person serving as both CEO and chairman - but they must provide a compelling reason why. As a result, some 95% of British companies split the job. Simon Wong, who studied the topic as a consultant at McKinsey, points to another reason why separating the roles is a tough sell in the U.S. "If you do not occupy both positions you are perceived to be not a sufficiently strong leader," says Wong. "That's a very U.S. perspective...
...yelling at their teenagers doesn't generally help. But what about the broader idea of parents getting tough? Some parents take up a very authoritarian stance, trying to lay down the rules. This doesn't help an adolescent boy at all because it means the rules are imposed from outside, like a moral law. Parents need to be involved in a dialogue with their son. They need to fill the role of intellectual midwife: engage them in a conversation where the rules, the laws, what's right and what's wrong are talked about and not imposed. Sometimes parents have...
...scoop, edged with pronglike "ripper tines," is designed to crunch into the tough polar permafrost. NASA's plan is to dig trenches about 19 in. (.5 m) into the surface, a depth where scientists believe ice meets soil, and haul a sample onto the spacecraft. There, an instrument will heat the soil in tiny ovens, checking the resulting vapors for water and carbon compounds. An on-board chemistry lab with dual microscopes will add water to the sample and analyze the spectral and electrochemical results to check acidity, salt levels, and ion concentrations...
...gives totally of himself to get through to them. (The kids were discovered in a school in Paris' 20th arrondisement, put through a long workshop period to play characters who were part fictional, part themselves.) As the film unfolds, a half-dozen or more of the children reveal distinct, tough and touching personalities...
...Clinton's former rival John Edwards came next, joking about what he wanted from the two remaining Democratic candidates in return for his endorsement. (Help for the poor, and a pair of jet skis.) Finally, Barack Obama chimed in via satellite, doing a riff on the tough debate questions that had irked him two nights before. "I think the American people are tired of these games of petty distractions," he said, before adding "Distractions" to the list of pet peeves on Colbert's "On Notice" board, alongside Grizzly Bears and Jane Fonda...