A plea to CEO Tom Horton to turn American Airlines employees into believers, proselytizers, and champions--and fix up the airline's finances in the process. "We will have to make very tough and sometimes unpopular decisions that will impact people's lives." —An internal letter to employees from Tom Horton, CEO of AMR Corporation, American Airlines' parent company on 12/15/11 Dear Tom, You think American Airlines employees were frightened and scared for their employment before
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Read More »Key Findings on Higgs Boson, Alzheimer’s Drugs, Lake Vostok Set to Emerge in 2012
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Read More »Bee Hunt!
A scientific study to understand the impact of climate change and other factors on plant-pollinator interactions, geographic distributions and seasonal abundances [More]
Read More »Call to Censor Bird Flu Studies Draws Fire
“I don’t like to scare people,” says microbiologist Paul Keim. “But the worst-case scenarios here are just enormous.” [More]
Read More »World’s Only Known Natural Quasicrystal Traced to Ancient Meteorite
Theoretical physicist Paul Steinhardt did not expect to spend last summer travelling across spongy tundra to a remote gold-mining region in north-eastern Russia. But that is where he spent three weeks tracing the origins of the world’s only known natural example of a quasicrystal--an exotic type of structure discovered in 1982 in a synthetic material by Dan Shechtman, a materials scientist at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa who netted the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the finding.
Read More »Give slim kids higher marks, says diet guru
Pierre Dukan, the nutritionist behind the popular but controversial Dukan diet, has suggested that France tackle child obesity by giving extra exam marks for slimness.
Read More »Enfamil infant formula cleared in kids’ bacterial infections
Wal-Mart and other retailers recalled formula after Avery Cornett of Lebanon, Mo died of Cronobacter sakazakii infection
Read More »6 Marketing New Year’s Resolutions for 2012
The new year means new opportunities to grow your business bigger, better and faster. Get started with these six resolutions. It’s that time of year , when we all step back and ponder on what was great about the year and what we coulda, woulda and shoulda done better.
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If eating healthy is one of your New Years' resolutions, check out these 7 foods you can start with
Read More »Detox the natural way for extreme results
If you've saddled yourself with a restrictive, faddish detox diet this new year, you'll want to hear nutritionist Keri Glassman's number one rule of detoxing, the natural way: EAT!
Read More »Scientists grow mouse sperm in laboratory: Can it help humans?
Scientists hope discovery could lead to more treatments for infertile men so they could have kids without a sperm donor
Read More »Are Facebook Fans Really Helping Your Brand?
New research shows that a large Facebook fanbase isn't necessarily key to growing a brand.
Read More »Diabetes, poverty during pregnancy tied to child’s ADHD risk
Combination of poverty, gestational diabetes resulted in 14-fold increase in child's risk to develop attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
Read More »Yahoo Autos Partners With TrueCar, Brings Transparency To Car Buying
Want to know which buyers are getting a great deal--and, who's getting stiffed?
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