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Jay Branegan (Washington): The bar for success is being set a lot lower; he's not going there to try and restart the Camp David talks. If the cease-fire is still in place after three weeks, that's a success. But his higher goal of locking both sides into...
Over the first two years, the university measured a 21% drop in high-risk drinking, which is imbibing five or more drinks in a sitting on a weekly basis."That's a massive reduction when nationally those levels were flat or increasing slightly," says Perkins. The incidence of missed classes...
The program, which has been dubbed the "social-norms" approach, is in effect at a number of other colleges--with similarly sparkling results. Northern Illinois University has seen a 44% reduction in binge drinking, Western Washington University is down 20% and the University of Missouri-Columbia is down 18%. One...
Brenda Conlan and Jeffrey Wolfsberg, recovering alcoholics who founded Lifestyle Risk Reduction, which runs alcohol-education workshops for high schoolers and their parents, have made an informal study of nondrinkers and what keeps them sober. The most consistent nondrinkers, they've found, had unusually sound relationships with their parents, fearing...
If competitive systems like Enron's have a weakness, it's that they can stir suspicion and discourage teamwork. If I help you, you'll get a better rank than I will. Challenger tells of a manager who recently had to rank all his people in preparation for a 10...