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...competent HR person can also help establish some basic personnel policies and practices that are important but often missing at a dotcom, Bernard says. Everyone should have a clear job description, for example, and undergo routine evaluation so that there's no confusion (or surprise pink slips) and the company can make sure it's got all legal bases covered. Rewards should be doled out fairly. Handing out raises or shares "willy-nilly," Bernard says, creates resentment among the staff...
...which has conducted 200 courses in the past seven years, started out treating halfway-house criminals but works today with wealthy businessmen, the homeless and children as young as eight. Even the six-year-old in Flint, Mich., who killed his classmate in February had reportedly been scheduled to undergo anger therapy. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who gunned down 13 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., had taken anger-management classes a year earlier for stealing from...
...Gates & Co. have clamped down on Easter eggs. The reason has to do less with the fear of seeing themselves in a state of undress than with the fear of lawsuits from corporations that want their software to undergo thorough quality control. You're not likely to find any eggs in Microsoft's post-1997 output...
...club convened to discuss the agreement and its ramifications for their future. For legal reasons, the graduate board had not been able to tell anyone, including the club's officers, that they had been in negotiations for 18 months about possible changes. "We knew the organization was going to undergo some transformation from how things were going, but we had no graduate board confirmation," says Decherd, who is also a Crimson editor. The officers, who had learned of the agreement Tuesday, explained the situation as well as possible options. In order to maintain their current space, the club would have...
Surgery is still the front line of defense against colon cancer, and it is highly effective against the smaller tumors. (Better techniques mean that less than 2% of all colorectal-cancer patients now undergo a colostomy, in which the large intestine is rerouted to a hole in the abdomen and emptied into a bag. That's down from as many as 20% two decades ago.) Larger or more aggressive tumors usually require chemotherapy, which can be a problem. Whereas breast cancer, for example, often succumbs to any of eight to 10 powerful drugs, there has until recently been only...