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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...He’s a very hard worker. He always puts in the extra work. When you follow that kind of hard work ethic, it shows...

Author: By Melanie E. Long, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: O’Hara Jumpstarts Harvard’s Momentum | 4/21/2008 | See Source »

...Defined by education, a central determinant of a worker's economic life, to include all whites with less than a four-year college degree. Source: Ruy Teixeira, Brookings Institution

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Bitter Lesson | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

Companies are putting real resources into these efforts. North Shore--LIJ Health System, for example, plowed about $10 million into worker training and tuition reimbursement last year. People at all levels are encouraged to expand their skills, which is how employees who start out as secretaries or housekeepers eventually wind up as technicians on surgical teams. That helps lead to a one-year retention rate of 96%, besting the industry-average 88%, and, ultimately, to better care for patients, says chief human-resources officer Joseph Cabral, who likes to display a chart that shows patient-satisfaction scores rising with employee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rage to Engage | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

This week, I read that a construction worker attempted to curse the new Yankees stadium by burying a David Ortiz jersey in some freshly poured concrete. I thought to myself, really? And then I realized, of course some crazy Red Sox fan did this...

Author: By and D. PATRICK Knoth, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Hate It: Red Sox | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...contemporary art to 50 selected art institutions throughout the country. The Vogels’ collection includes works of more than 170 contemporary artists. Among the artists whose works will be sent to HUAM are Michael Goldberg, Edda Renouf, Richard Tuttle, and Stephen Antonakos. Herbert Vogel, 85, a retired postal worker, and Dorothy Vogel, 73, a retired reference librarian, told The Austin Chronicle, “we bought art we could afford and that would fit into the apartment.” The couple began collecting art in the 1960s and started lending pieces to HUAM in the early 1970s...

Author: By Roy Cohen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Art Museums Receive New Works | 4/13/2008 | See Source »

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