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By Paul McDougall Federally-backed program aims to help outsourcers in South Asia become more fluent in areas like Java programming—and the English language. Despite President

Recent polling has shown huge gaps between the Political Class and Mainstream Americans on issues ranging from immigration to health care to the virtues of

The Goldman Sachs risk system is called SecDB (securities database), and everything at Goldman that matters is run out of it. The GUI itself looks

By Amy Rolph It’s expensive to eat well — far more expensive than eating poorly. And the gap between the price of healthy and unhealthy

By Jim Polson and Allison Bennett The “vast majority” of crude from BP Plc’s damaged Gulf of Mexico well is gone and the rest is

Note from Catherine: In my opinion, scenario planning of the kind practiced by Global Business Network is a tool used by corporate leadership to ensure

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In another type of experiment, Harvard University psychologist Ellen Langer demonstrated that time is a relative notion. A group of people over age 70 was