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Technology Time: How Well Do You Manage It? 2 11. Do you have shortcuts on your desktop, with easy access to commonly used toolbars? 3 2 1 0 12. Do you prevent data loss by regularly backing up your files? 3 2 1 0 13. Do you schedule fixed blocks of time for completing miscellaneous computer tasks? 3 2 1 0 14. Do you handle each e-mail only once? 3 2 1 0 15. Do
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Technology Time: How Well Do You Manage It? By Richard Ensman 1 You might have read books about time management, attended seminars on this important subject, and studied the key principles of managing time. But in the last decade, something new has entered the world of time management—computer technology. Used wisely, it can help you save time; used poorly, it can cause you to squ
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New Hope for Children of Alzheimer’s Sufferers 2 Lifestyle changes Moderate drinkers also performed better on cognitive and verbal fluency tests than non-drinkers. Although he would not recommend that people at risk for Alzheimer’s begin drinking, Sager said he would not discourage anyone — who can handle a glass or two of wine a day—from drinking. “It’s all moderation,” he s
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New Hope for Children of Alzheimer’s Sufferers By John Fauber/ ©2005, Milwaukee journal Sentinel, Knight Ridder Newspaper. Distributed by Tribune Media Services International 1 Middle-aged sons and daughters of people with Alzheimer’s disease may be able to reduce their risk of getting the disorder. Lifestyle measures such as exercise, avoiding gum disease, and drinking fru
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Emerging Technologies 3 Mobile-phone viruses By Stu Hutson ValleZ has released a digital epidemic—or maybe he’s delivered an early inoculation. ValleZ is the online handle of a 24-year-old computer programmer from Spain who, in June 2004, wrote the first malicious program targeting mobile phones, the Cabir worm. Now, security experts fear that the rush to integrate mobile phones
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Emerging Technologies 2 Bacterial factories By Erika Jonietz In the valleys of central China, a fernlike weed called sweet wormwood grows in fields formerly dedicated to corn. The plant is the only source of artemisinin, a drug that is nearly 100 percent effective against malaria. But even with more farmers planting the crop, demand for artemisinin exceeds supply, driving its cost out of r
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Emerging Technologies ©2005 MIT Technology Review, Technology Review, Inc. Distributed by Tribune Media Services International Of the numerous technologies now in development, MIT Technology Review has chosen several it thinks will make particularly big splashes. Advanced brings three of these technologies into sharper focus 1 Airborne networks By David Talbot The
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Power Words: Use These to Sell Anything 2 Immediate In today’s fast-paced society, anything that brings closure to an issue or immediate gratification has great appeal. Offer some immediate payoff, such as quick turnaround or delivery to buyers who take action swiftly. Legendary This product is timeless. That’s what the term “legendary” means to listener
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Power Words: Use These to Sell Anything By Richard Ensman Just a few key words can give you the selling power you need 1 Power words: They strike deep into the heart of a prospective buyer. Used with skill, they can help you sell anything—ideas, support, products — to anyone. You can use power words to add impact to advertising, brochures and newsletters, talks and
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A Formula for Writing Success 2 Persistence One day when I was checking out books at the library, the librarian asked about my book choices. When I told her I was doing research for a magazine article, she told me she had once sent a magazine an idea for an article. “They rejected me, so I gave up.” That’s the difference between want-to-be writers and successful writers. Want-to-be w
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A Formula for Writing Success By Karen Asp/ ©Writer’s Digest Incorporate courage, passion, patience, persistence and talent in your writing, and you will be a success 1 Forget about buying the newest laptop or slickest software. If you want to be a successful writer, you only need this simple formula: C3PT. It’s what I’ve found to be the element of success in my ow
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How to Be a Good Leader 3 6. Leaders probe and push, making sure their questions are answered with action. When you are an individual contributor, you try to have all the answers. When you are a leader, your job is to have all the questions. You have to be comfortable looking like the dumbest person in the room. Every conversation you have about a decision, a proposal or a piece of market
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How to Be a Good Leader 2 3. Leaders exude positive energy and optimism. An upbeat manager with a positive outlook ends up running a team or organization filled with upbeat people with positive outlooks. Work can be hard. Your job as leader is to fight the gravitational pull of negativism. That doesn’t mean you sugarcoat the challenges. Instead, display an energizing, can-do attitude abo
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How to Be a Good Leader By jack Welch, LLC. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers During his long career as General Electric CEO, Jack Welch mentored a generation of future CEOs. Here, he gives his “rules of the games” 1 One day, you become a leader. On Monday, you’re talking and laughing with colleagues and gossiping about how stupid management can be. Then on
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Emotional Competence: How Do You Rate? By Richard G. Ensman, Jr What’s more important than organizational skills in the workplace? According to some experts, the ability to manage your emotions and relationships Talk about success in the workplace usually focuses on technical and organizational skills. But recently, another important ingredient has emerged: emotional compet
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The Infinite Library 2 Undoubtedly, it will be a complex task. “It’s not just feeding the books into some kind of digitization machine,” says Susan Wojcicki, leader of the Google Print project. It also includes “taking the digital files, moving those files around, storing them, compressing them, OCR-ing them, indexing them and serving them up,” she points out. “At that point it become
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The Infinite Library By Wade Roush / ©2005, MIT Technology Review. Distributed by Tribune Media Services International. Does Google’s plan to digitize millions of print books spell the death of libraries – or their rebirth? 1 Search-engine giant Google announced ambitious plans earlier this year to expand its “Google Print” service by converting th
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Identity Thieves’ New Ploy: Pharming 2 How do people pharm? Pharming scams take a few different forms: Attackers could use malicious code, such as a virus, planted on a user’s PC to track keystrokes or change a computer’s settings to take users to fraudulent copies of the legitimate Web sites they request, said Gary Steele, CEO of e-mail security company Proofpoint. Hac
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Identity Thieves’ New Ploy: Pharming By Dan Lee / ©2005, San Jose Mercury News, Knight Ridder Newspapers. Distributed by Tribune Media Services International. In these high-tech times, criminals are finding new ways to wreak havoc on society 1 First online crooks went “phishing” to reap their harvest of potential identity-theft victims. Now they’re getting
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Distance Learning Explodes in Popularity 2 High school students sign up for distance learning By Maya Suryaraman ©2005, San Jose Mercury News, KRT. Distributed by TMSI. Distance learning, a phenomenon already entrenched in colleges and universities, is now growing explosively in public high schools. The Internet, video conferencing and other technologies are enabling students to tak
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Distance Learning Explodes in Popularity By Kristen King /©2003, The Virginian-Pilot, Knight Ridder Newspapers. Distributed by Tribune Media Services International. Critics worry that distance learning lacks the rigor of face-to-face instruction, but experts say neither method is inherently better – provided the teacher and course content are both good 1 Erin Maple had
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The New Breed of CEO 2 Changing the mindset One of the few concrete means of measuring our view of leaders — CEO pay — implies that little has changed. It is rising at an even faster rate, and can still be hidden by complicated options schemes. What was 42 times the average worker’s salary in 1980 is 531 times today. “It takes a while for that whole mindset to change,” says gover
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The New Breed of CEO By Karen Lowry Miller / Originally appeared as In the Quiet Crow, Newsweek Special Edition, Winter 2004 ©2005 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission. Keeping a low profile: The age of the supercelebrity CEO is coming to a close, replaced by a new generation who stay out of the news 1 As 2005 got off to a rocky beginning, one wond
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The Communication Code Breakers 2 Cutting off discussion: She persistently cuts her peers off, sometimes in mid-sentence. The code: “I’m overly eager to get my point across.” Cracking the code: “Why don’t we each take two minutes to summarize our individual views?” Having side debates: He discusses some aspect of the meeting with the person seated next to him. The code:
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The Communication Code Breakers By Richard G. Ensman, Jr. PAGE DESIGN BY MICHELLE TI At your next meeting, be a wise listener: Respond to what the other participants really mean, not necessarily what they say 1 Communication enables us to work together, but sometimes even our best efforts to communicate cause misunderstandings. Communication within group settings is especially chall
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The High Cost of Uncritical Teaching 2 Every person—educated or not—possesses many of these capabilities for critical thinking. Different individuals employ them to varying degrees, often depending on time and circumstance. The previous list is not exhaustive, of course. CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES IN CURRICULUM Some educators and parents feel that critical thinking opens classrooms to
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The High Cost of Uncritical Teaching By Ira J. Winn / Reprinted with permission. Adapted from the article originally published in Phi Delta Kappan magazine. If students are not given the guidance and opportunity to engage in critical thinking and discourse in school, they will not be capable citizens in today’s world 1 “Why can’t my students think for themselves?
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The New Age of Nuclear Power 3 Power up! INET’s power facility design can do the two things that matter most amid China’s explosive growth: Get where they’re needed and get big, fast. Developers aim to have a full-scale 200-megawatt version of HTR-10 by the end of the decade. They’ve already persuaded Huaneng Power International, one of China’s five big privatized utilities, to p
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The New Age of Nuclear Power 2 How HTR-10 works Project director Zhang Zuoyi explains that HTR-10’s carefully designed geometry, low fuel density and small size make it inherently safe. In the event of a catastrophic cooling-system failure, the core temperature climbs to about 1,600 degrees Celsius — comfortably below the balls’ 2,000-plus-degree melting point — and then falls. &nb
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The New Age of Nuclear Power By Spencer Reiss / Originally published in Wired. Get ready for the mass-produce, meltdown-proof future of nuclear energy 1 A team of Chinese scientists advising the Beijing leadership estimates that by 2050, China could require 300 gigawatts of nuclear output, not much less than the 350 gigawatts produced worldwide today. To meet that grow
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