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Stop trying to balance the mythical scales so that work and family demands and rewards are exactly even.

Gail McGovern, the president and CEO of the American Red Cross, assumed leadership of this iconic organization at a particularly tough time. In 2008, when she was chosen from among 170 candidates, the institution’s reputation had been tarnished by the response to Hurricane Katrina and by a string of leadership scandals.

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By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - Global greenhouse gas emissions could rise 50 percent by 2050 without more ambitious climate policies, as fossil fuels continue to dominate the energy mix, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said on Thursday. "Unless the global energy mix changes, fossil fuels will supply about 85 percent of energy demand in 2050, implying a 50 percent increase in greenhouse gas emissions and worsening urban air pollution," the OECD said in its environment outlook to 2050.

Great entrepreneurs succeed because they're willing to do every job, ask every dumb question, and--above all--admit they can't do it alone. Talent is God-given, be humble. Fame is man-given, be thankful.

Being a great mentor requires more than experience and time. Learn to weave the right web

Most light emitters, from candles to light bulbs to computer screens, look the same from any angle. But in a paper published this week on the Nature Photonics website, MIT researchers report the development of a new light source — a fiber only a little thicker than a human hair — whose brightness can be controllably varied for different viewers.

One of the last initiatives of Luigi “Gino” Macaluso, the respected CEO of Girard-Perregaux who passed away last year, was to institute a program for the development of chiming watches. This most prestigious discipline in complicated watchmaking had been the only area of expertise that the company had yet to ...

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Digital adoption in schools has been slow because of the overhead involved. That changes today.

Meet Ansar Khan, whose experience working at his family's restaurant informed the development of his software, Ambur. Ansar Khan (left, with cofounder James O'Leary) is one of the developers of Ambur , an iOS app that wants to cut through the clutter and poor design choices common in too much restaurant software. Ambur is poised to receive an update shortly (pending Apple's approval).

There's a reason ESPN, Google, and Zynga lead their industries.

On February 14, some media outlets received internal documents of the Heartland Institute , a think-tank funded in part by oil and coal companies that downplays the role of human activity in climate change. The documents contained putative evidence that Heartland was funding efforts to influence what elementary schools teach about climate science

Researchers from the University of York are pioneering the development of electron microscopes which will allow scientists to examine a greater variety of materials in new revolutionary ways.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Yale University have taken another significant step in the development of quantum computing, a new frontier in computing that promises exponentially faster information processing than the most sophisticated computers of today.