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Though only a trickle so far, the figures suggest a wave of hefty pay raises, well ahead of last year, and mostly based on the new reap-as-ye-shall-sow yardstick. "Shareholder activism has had a huge impact on executive pay," says Michael Davis of Towers Perrin, a New York City management-consulting firm...
...measuring with unprecedented precision the distance to the distant galaxy M100 (56 million light-years), a team of researchers led by Wendy Freedman of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, provided the most accurate yardstick ever for gauging the expansion rate, and thus the age, of the universe. Their illogical preliminary answer: the cosmos is between 8 billion and 12 billion years old--or about 2 billion years younger than the oldest known stars. While Freedman and others refine their measurements, cosmologists are scrambling to patch up their theories. To save the idea of the Big Bang, the postulated explosive...
...test scores, Baltimore students attending a control group of non-EAI schools have shown a steady improvement in math and reading scores since 1992, while EAI school scores lagged behind not only the control group but the city as a whole. EAI officials, using a different yardstick, dispute these figures and note that it will take some time for scores to show improvement...
...cultural yardstick for measuring leadership is definitely a white male one," Roberts said...
...about how his research may come to be applied." While many researchers in this relatively new field are glad to see emotional issues finally taken seriously, they fear that a notion as handy as EQ invites misuse. Goleman admits the danger of suggesting that you can assign a numerical yardstick to a person's character as well as his intellect; Goleman never even uses the phrase EQ in his book. But he (begrudgingly) approved an "unscientific" EQ test in USA Today with choices like "I am aware of even subtle feelings as I have them," and "I can sense...