News tagged with leaders
Global CEOs back greenhouse gas cuts, carbon caps
May 26, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A global summit of business leaders urged governments to order steep and mandatory cuts in greenhouse gases Tuesday, favoring a cap-and-trade system instead of a tax to set a market price for carbon ...
African-Americans lose weight in 12-week, church-based program
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Nearly half of overweight and obese African Americans who completed a 12-week, faith-based program lost 5 percent or more of their body weight and most kept it off for at least six months, researchers reported at the American ...
No such thing as a 'born leader,' study in fish finds
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Jan 29, 2009 |
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Followers are just as important to good leadership as are the leaders themselves, reveals a new study of stickleback fish published online on January 29th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.
The overall channels of the lightning discharges
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 05, 2008 |
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A new narrowband radio interferometer system has been developed for continuous observation of various processes of a lightning discharge at a time resolution of one microsecond. By using this system, a cloud-to-ground lightning ...
Survey finds widespread dissatisfaction with current health care payment system
Nov 03, 2008 |
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Leaders in health care and health care policy feel strongly that the way we pay for health care in the U.S. must be fundamentally reformed. The latest Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Health Care Opinion Leaders Survey ...
Narcissistic people most likely to emerge as leaders
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 07, 2008 |
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When a group is without a leader, you can often count on a narcissist to take charge, a new study suggests. Researchers found that people who score high in narcissism tend to take control of leaderless groups. Narcissism ...
Study: Americans Expect Business Leaders to Be White
Jul 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite decades of progress for minorities in corporate settings, Americans still expect business leaders to be white, and they judge white leaders as more effective than their minority counterparts. This ...
