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...There's a large body of medical literature showing that married people tend to be healthier and live longer than singles. But newer research adds an important caveat: the quality of the marriage matters. Marital stress, logically enough, is not good for your health. In a study reviewed in the Harvard Men's Health Watch in May, 72 married couples were ranked on a scale of marital stress and tracked for three years. Those with high levels of stress were more likely to have an unhealthy thickening of the heart's main pumping chamber. (Couples in unhappy marriages, however, were...
...think the Republicans are better at understanding how to get and keep power. They've shown that since 1968. The Democrats tend to be more responsible in the exercise of power but sometimes don't understand how to get it or how to keep it. We have to understand, we Democrats, that not all politics is rational and you have to deal with people's fear, their need for security. We have to understand that when the Republicans come at us and paint cartoon-like images of us, even if, like [former Georgia Senator] Max Cleland, we left half...
...service to the governments and not try to be their equal," Delors says. "If [national leaders] don't question your loyalty, you can play the go-between and find solutions." If the President is unable to get a consensus among his team of commissioners, Delors says, the national governments tend to dismiss them as "a mere group of fonctionnaires." That's pretty much the view from the big capitals right now. And who's complaining? Federalism is out and national sovereignty is in, as the constitutional agreement shows: foreign and tax policies, for example, remain subject to national vetoes...
Politicians tend to campaign somewhere in mid-mainstream. In the past election, voters could choose between a candidate who called himself born again, argued for more federal funding for faith-based programs and promised to consider in policymaking the pop mantra "WWJD: What Would Jesus Do?" That candidate was Al Gore. Or they could vote for Bush, who was born to East Coast Episcopalian parents, was sent to Presbyterian Sunday school in Texas, converted when he married a Methodist, and was renewed in faith thanks to the evangelical witness of Billy Graham--a fairly typical American spiritual journey...
...Gets Done in Organizations, is to make the network visible. By studying workers' interactions and not just the official chain of command, managers can spot such problems as "bottlenecks" (in which one worker is overwhelmingly depended on by many people), "peripheral people" (who aren't tapped often enough and tend to be much less satisfied in their jobs) and "disconnects" (which can be caused by something as simple as a group being split between two floors in the same building). "Most managers think, to improve collaboration, they need to go to an off-site or bring in a new technology...