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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...
...genome. At times, biotech firms, spurred by dreams of giga-bucks, appeared to be in the lead. But like an Aesopian tortoise, the government scientists working with the Human Genome Project have continued pushing along. In November they announced that they had completed mapping the first billion "letters"--or basic chemical units--in our DNA's alphabet...
...Mike, who has written two books (the most recent: Other Worlds) and whose physicist dad served as dean of Princeton's faculty for 17 years, wrote about the chances of discovering another universe. "What appealed to me most about this project was that many of the questions are so basic that a child might ask them yet so profound and difficult that our writers felt challenged by them...
Jeff is probably best known for co-writing the book that spawned the movie Apollo 13, so he was a natural to field the question about when we will live on Mars. "We've nailed the basic technology; the only thing missing is a decision to go." Barbara Maddux, who is doing a superb job as the head reporter on the entire Visions project, liked the "Will We Live on Mars?" question for more practical reasons: "As a New Yorker living in a tight housing market, I was surprised--and encouraged--by Jeff's optimistic answer...
Teachers are generally given basic guidelines on which kinds of personal contact with children are acceptable, but adults who volunteer to work with children on an informal or infrequent basis often don't realize that we are living in a new world in which a well-intentioned hug can become a criminal offense...