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The future of private equity

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Although global private equity markets have fallen on hard times, reports of their imminent demise are greatly exaggerated. So says Steve Kaplan, a widely recognized authority on entrepreneurial finance and corporate governance ...


The evolving manager stereotype: Gender a factor in measuring a team's performance

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Although women have made strides in the business world, they still occupy less than two percent of CEO leadership positions in the Fortune 500. Not surprisingly therefore leaders still tend to be thought of as men and most ...


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MySpace in talks to buy imeem

Technology / Internet

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Online social hub MySpace is in talks to acquire struggling free music streaming site imeem, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.


Coed college housing connected to frequent binge drinking

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A new study in the Journal of American College Health finds that students placed by their universities in coed housing are 2.5 times more likely to binge drink each week than students placed in all-male or all-female housin ...


What's eating the breadwinners?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Control, independence, ambition, pressure, worry, guilt and resentment are all experienced by female breadwinners, according to Dr. Rebecca Meisenbach from the University of Missouri in Columbia, USA. Dr. Meisenbach explored ...


Grand Canyon to change 'unfair' permit system

Other Sciences / Other

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(AP) -- Getting one of the roughly 11,500 permits granted each year to backpack overnight in the Grand Canyon has become so competitive and "unfair" that managers at the national park have decided to change the system.


Teen sexual activity and gambling associated with taking nonprescribed medications to get high

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Taking nonprescribed medication has become an emerging problem, especially among teens. When using these substances to get high, students are more likely to engage in bad behaviors than those who don't, a ...


The developing child: Rating aggressive and delinquent behavior in pre-adolescence

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In a study published in an upcoming issue of The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry researchers show that over reactive parenting, such as heavy criticism or yelling as a response to a child's negative behavior, can pr ...


Fearless kids more likely to be adult criminals: study

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Children who lack a normal fear response are more likely to commit crimes when they grow up, a study published Monday in the American Journal of Psychiatry suggested.


Toward explaining why hepatitis B hits men harder than women

Toward explaining why hepatitis B hits men harder than women

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists in China are reporting discovery of unusual liver proteins, found only in males, that may help explain the long-standing mystery of why the hepatitis B virus (HBV) sexually discriminates -- hitting ...



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