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Toilet paper manufacturers compete with one another to improve product quality.

They need to immunise teams against group-think: Hackman argued that the best ones contain deviants who are willing to do something that may be upsetting to others.

There's only one problem with the cliché .

The fashion for teams is also spreading from the usual corporate suspects to some more unusual ones.

Six months out, more people who had quit abruptly had stuck with it—more than one-fifth of them, compared to about one-seventh in the other group.

Readiness to take advantage of new opportunities will make it easier to create one's desired future.

Product transitions used to take five or seven years; now they take one or two.

One of the reasons I find this topic very interesting is because my mom was a smoker when I was younger, says Lindson-Hawley, who studies tobacco and health at the University of Oxford.

One in 10 buyers rank toilet rolls made from recycled paper among their top considerations, highlighting how overall the environment is much less of a consideration for shoppers than product quality.

One had to quit abruptly on a given day, going from about a pack a day to zero.

One ancient form of egg art comes to us from Ukraine.

Leah reflects on one incident that triggered her fears, when her investors threatened to shut her down: I was probably up against the most fear I've ever had, she says.

It makes for the best part of one's life.

It is likely to change the narrative of one's life.

It is likely to be a critical turning point in one's life.

It can be a new phase of one's life.

Emailing the neuroscientist and memory researcher Jim McGaugh one day, she claimed that she could recall every day of her life since the age of 12.

Each time you remember the new PIN, you gradually forget the old one.

Then in the late 1500s,food scientists in the Netherlands cultivated large, straight, sweet, red carrots like the ones we eat today.

Scientists identified 20 of the one-meter-long snakes during two trips to the Caribbean islands.

One of the creatures made a dramatic appearance by moving on to the head of the team leader as he slept.

One of Google’s self-driving cars crashed into a bus in California last month.

It is not the first time one of Google’s famed self-driving cars has been involved in a crash, but it may be the first time it has caused one.

He estimated that the comfort level will increase considerably in five to ten years3) One dog has been killed and multiple dogs have been injured by a snowmobile driver in what appears to be an intentional attack on competitors in the Iditarod Race in Alaska.

A snowmobile driver had repeatedly attempted to harm her and her team, and one of Zircle’s dogs had received a non-lifethreatening injury.

to see whether people's personality affects their life span to find out if one's lifestyle has any effect on their health to investigate the role of exercise in living a long lifeto examine all the factors contributing to longevity They have a good understanding of evolution.

These patterns suggest that some types of mental flexibility decrease relatively early in adulthood, but that the amount of knowledge one has, and the effectiveness of integrating it with one's abilities, may increase throughout all of adulthood if there are no diseases, Salthouse said in a news release.

Their flexibility determines one's abilities.

So the formerly small supper after sundown becomes the big meal of the day, the only one at which the family has a chance to get together.

Readiness to accept new ideas helps one enjoy longevity.

Personality plays a decisive role in how healthy one is.

One simple check would be to program a robot to check the correct course of action with a human when presented with an unusual situation.

Older adults, especially those with limited mobility or difficulty driving on their own, are one of the classic use-cases for driverless cars.

Not everyone wants a driverless car now—and no one can get one yet—but among those who are open to them, every age group is similarly engaged.

It weakens in one's later years.

It indicates one's health condition.

Indeed, we have made substantial progress in some parts of the world on at least one of these—the distribution of family-planning services and the associated shift to smaller families.

In a study last year, of all people surveyed, 48 percent said they wanted to ride in one, while 50 percent did notThe fact that attitudes toward self-driving cars appear to be so steady across generations suggests how transformative the shift to driverless cars could be.

I think what Aesop was suggesting is that when you offer a good turn to another human being, one can hope that that good deed will come back and sort of pay a profit to you, the doer of the good deed.

Health is in large part related to one's lifestyle.

Does assisted living really mark a great improvement over a nursing home, or has the industry simply hired better interior designers? Are nursing homes as bad as people fear, or is that an out-moded stereotype ? Can doing one's homework really steer families to the best places? It is genuinely hard to know.

But an accumulating body of research indicates that some distinctions between one type of elder care and another have little real bearing on how well residents do.

As a matter of fact, consumers expressed higher satisfaction with the one-star facilities, the lowest rated, than with the five-star ones.

Anxiety and depression more often than not cut short one's life span.

Stan Glantz, a professor of medicine in San Francisco,explains why: And you know, one thing that I wanted to ask you.

Much of the criticism is directed at the British Airports Authority, which runs seven major airports, including the three main ones serving in London.

He wrapped one layer of the plastic around the card and tried again.

But it’s one of many low- tech fixes for high-tech failures that people without engineering degrees have discovered, often out of desperation and shared.

Why do some students give up when they encounter difficulty, whereas others who are no more skilled continue to strive and learn? One answer, I soon discovered, lay in people's beliefs about why they had failed.

While reformulating recipes is one way to improve public health, it should be part of a multisided approach.

When employees log in to their computers, they're shown a picture of one of their coworkers and asked to guess that person's name.

Werbach gives the example of several Disneyland hotels in Anaheim, California, which used large digital leaderboards to display how efficiently laundry workers were working compared to one another.

Waiters, keen observers of humanity that they are, are catching on to this; in one poll, a full 30% said they didn't believe the job they did had any impact on the tips they received.

To enhance morale, one company asks its employees to identify their fellow workers when starting their computers.

They're also only a single layer in what should ideally be a many-sided approach to securing your home, one that includes common sense things like sound locks and proper exterior lighting at night.

The key is to remember that there is not just one solution.

The helpless ones believe intelligence is a fixed characteristic: you have only a certain amount, and that's that.

SimpliSafe was singled out in one recent article on jamming, complete with a video showing the entire system being effectively bypassed with handheld jamming equipment.

People with a fixed mind-set believe that one's intelligence is unchangeable.

One reason is that more countries are big oil producers now, so the nations suffering from the price drop account for a larger share of the global economy.

One of the prizes used was a lottery ticket , with a $10, $50 or $100 payout, and this was as effective as a tangible gift in persuading people to eat less.

One of the main theoretical home-security concerns is whether or not a given system is vulnerable to being blocked from working altogether.

One explanation for this finding is that possible awards may be more emotionally provoking than certainty awards, says Reimann.

One company Werbach has studied uses gamification to create a sense of community and boost employees' morale .

One argument that you tend to hear a lot from the pro-tipping crowd seems logical enough: the service is better when waiters depend on tips, presumably because they see a benefit to successfully veiling their contempt for you.

Kids preferred an award in the form of money to one in the form of a toy.

It is one that has seen no parallel in economic history.

In a Los Angeles Times article, one employee referred to the board as a digital whip.

How do we transmit a growth mind-set to our children? One way is by telling stories about achievements that result from hard work.

Every one of them has vulnerabilities that a knowledgeable thief could theoretically exploit.

Different measures should be taken to protect one's home from burglary in addition to the wireless security system.

Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.

But as it turns out, waiters see only a tiny bump in tips when they do an exceptional job compared to a passable one.

Another training, this one for pay roll law, used a Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs theme.

A good system is one that keeps that worst-case setting as improbable as possible while also offering strong protection in the event of a less-extraordinary attack.

There’s one sound that  gets a big reaction from kids on  a hot day: the sound of an ice-cream  truck.

The rock salt mine is one of three operated by Cargill with the other two in Louisiana and Ohio.

Nelson Kibara is one of them.

It’s a pretty easy job, but one with lots of downtime, which means you will have  plenty of time to catch up on reading, do homework or study for an exam.

Facing an 8.3-billion-dollar budget deficit this year, closing post offices is one of several proposals the Postal Service has put forth recently to cut costs.

Yet moments like this one are just the kind of intense absorption and pleasure adults spend the rest of their lives seeking.

What, then, are the effects of thinking about time in these different ways? Does one make us more productive? Better at the tasks at hand? Happier? In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne-Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities—from project planning, holiday shopping, to yoga—by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under clock time vs task time.

They accomplish their tasks one by one.

So while there're plenty of hackers who could start startups, there's no one to invest in them.

Since fewer than half of Americans say they cook at an intermediate level and only 20% describe their cooking skills as advanced, the crisis is one of confidence.

Show your wallet, if you still have one.

One day, when he went to get his 7-year-old son from soccer practice, his kid greeted him with a downcast face and a sad voice.

No one is asking you to give up activities you like, but if you're watching food shows on TV, try cooking instead.

No one advocates letting someone convicted of pedophilia work in a school.

Looking back on too many years of education, I can identify one truly impossible teacher.

It is in no one's interest to keep a large segment of the population on the margins of society.

Criticizing someone's speech is said to be easier than coming up with a better one.

Cooking real food is the best defense—not to mention that any meal you're likely to eat at home contains about 200 fewer calories than one you would eat in a restaurant.

Cooking benefits people in many ways and enables them to connect with one another.

But perhaps Plutarch is suggesting something slightly different, something a bit closer to Marcus Cicero's claim that one should criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

This dream came true for me one afternoon in the ninth grade.

Woolworths is one of the best known names on the British High Street.

Leo, why do you say English will become the world language? Hello, yes? No one knows for sure just how old kites are.

Legend tells of one general who flew musical kites over the enemy’s camp.

Kenyan police say one person was killed and 26 injured in an explosion at a bus station in central Nairobi.

Will parents be damaging children if they have one fewer organized activity? No, I really doubt it.

While bullying is parents' greatest concern over all, nearly half of low-income parents worry their child will get shot, compared with one-fifth of high-income parents.

The most recent one took place last week in Washington, D.C.Students join a team through their schools, which provide a volunteer coach and pay a nominal fee to send students to regional and state competitions.

The Math Video Challenge is a competition, but a collaborative one.

Tennessee's technical and community colleges will not outsource management of their facilities to a private company, a decision one leader said was bolstered by an analysis of spending at each campus.

One relative bright spot for Macy's during the holiday season was the online channel, where it rang up double-digit increases in sales and a 25% increase in the number of orders it filled.

One of the largest feeders for high school math competitions—including those that eventually lead to the IMO—is a middle school program called MathCounts.

Nearly half of high-earning, college-graduate parents enrolled their children in arts classes before they were 5, compared with one-fifth of low-income, lesseducated parents.

Morgan's comments on outsourcing mark the second time this month that he has come out against one of Haslam's plans for higher education in Tennessee.

Massive rubbish dumps and sprawling landfills constitute one of the more uncomfortable impacts that humans have on wildlife.

For example, one of the most popular data sets on multidisciplinary repository Dryad is about wood density around the world; it has been downloaded 5,700 times.

By raising relative demand for clean energy sources, a carbon price would also help align the market return to clean-energy innovation with its social return, spurring the refinement of existing technologies and the development of new ones.

A tax on upstream carbon sources is one easy way to put a price on carbon emissions, although some countries may wish to use other methods, such as emissions trading schemes.

One useful way is to distinguish between three degrees of poverty—extreme poverty,moderate poverty, and relative poverty.

Mr.Ishiguro, have you ever found one of your books at a secondhand bookstore? According to a study of race and equity in education, black athletes are dropping out of college across the country at alarming rates.

And the reality is that antibiotics have been responsible for saving millions of lives since penicillin, one of the earliest antibiotics, was first used on a clinical basis 70 years ago.

Unemployment cannot be brought down rapidly, declared one 1935 analysis, because the workforce is unadaptable and untrained.

They seem to be turning inward—generally in a pro-social manner, certainly with positive benefits for intimate relationships, but too often at the expense of a connection with the present and future world beyond, including the society they will one day inherit.

The one in the House bill would have to negotiate rates with providers, rather than using Medicare rates, as many reformers wanted.

The answer is that no one has an easy fix for rising medical costs.

Testing innovations do no good unless the good experiments are identified and expanded and the bad ones are dropped.

One recent study warns us of the danger of the exhaustion of natural resources on Earth.

One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this ecological overshoot of the human economy, and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in, and all those services—the things which the planet does for us for free—will grind to a halt.

One prevalent quality we have found in teens' statements about themselves, their friends and their families is a strikingly positive emotional tone.

One of the pioneers of a radical new way of thinking about the kitchen was Catharine Esther Beecher, sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

One main factor that has driven up medical expenses is that doctors are compensated for the amount of care rather than its effect.

One boy said, I'd rather be concentrating on artistic efforts than saving the world or something.

No one knows how to make that happen quickly.

Most politicians are kind of crooked , one student declared.

Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.

It underestimates students' ability to tell good teachers from poor ones.

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-year-olds—are way down: Little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first given the vote.

In the year to August 2007, IKEA, a Swedish furniture chain, sold over one million kitchens worldwide.

In contrast, the criminal justice system accounted for nearly one out of every five visual backgrounds.

How does one figure out who is a weak teacher? Yes, that's a challenge.

For example, only one boy said he would like to be president when he grows up.

Exclusivity, more familiar in the world of high fashion, has reached the kitchen: Robinson&Cornish, a British manufacturer of custom-made kitchens, offers a Georgian-style one which would cost £145,000-155,000— excluding building, plumbing and electrical work.

Another, discussing national politics, said, I feel like one person can't do that much, and I get the impression most people don't think a group of people can do that much.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequality from one generation to the next.

A surprising thing for the man who runs one of the world's most powerful economies to say? Perhaps; though in the run-up to the five-year review of the Millennium Goals, he is far from alone.

You know, one of the first things I like to tell people when they ask me about the supplements, is that a lot of them are promoted as a cure for your memory, but your memory doesn’t need a cure.

What happens to the centralized electric grid, which took decades and billions of dollars to build, as more and more people become prosumers, who produce and consume their own energy on-site?No one knows which – if any – battery technology will ultimately dominate, but one thing remains clear: The future of energy is in how we store it.

There is not any one-hit wonder, and there will not be one for years to come, said Gary Shapiro, president and chief executive of the Consumer Technology Association .

The U.S. trails far behind every wealthy nation and many developing ones that have family-friendly work policies including paid parental leave, paid sick days and breast-feeding support, according to a 2007 study.

The U.S. is also the only advanced economy that does not guarantee workers paid vacation time, and it's one of only two countries in the world that does not offer guaranteed paid maternity leave.

South Korea, which operates state-of-the-art bases here, is increasing its fishing of krill , found in abundance in the Southern Ocean, while Russia recently frustrated efforts to create one of the world's largest ocean sanctuaries here.

Since tobacco is one of the biggest causes of premature death in the UK, a measure that tames the habit even by a fraction is worth trying.

Only 13 percent of respondents said that they were interested in buying a smartwatch in 2016, for example – an increase of just one percent from the previous year despite a year of high-profile launches.

One analyst suggests it is necessary to accept both the positive and negative aspects of innovative products.

Michael Yudell, a professor of public health at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said that modern genetics research is operating in a paradox: on the one hand, race is understood to be a useful tool to illuminate human genetic diversity, but on the other hand, race is also understood to be a poorly defined marker of that diversity.

It is building its second ice-breaking ship and setting up research drilling operations on an ice dome 13,422 feet above sea level that is one of the planet's coldest places.

In one example that demonstrated genetic differences were not fixed along racial lines, the full genomes of James Watson and Craig Venter, two famous American scientists of European ancestry, were compared to that of a Korean scientist, Seong-Jin Kim.

In a study published last year, psychologists coined the term workplace telepressure to describe an employee's urge to immediately respond to emails and engage in obsessive thoughts about returning an email to one's boss, colleagues or clients.

Efforts to create one of the world's largest ocean sanctuaries failed because of Russia's obstruction.

Carli says that one of the most significant things about his study is that it provides new early-warning signs for parents, teachers and mental health-care providers.

But this third group was not only unexpected, it was so distinct and so large—nearly one third of our sample—that it became a key finding of the study.

But over the last couple of years, and in this one in particular, we are starting to see companies shift from what is the largest screen size, the smallest form factor or the shiniest object and more into what all of these devices do that is practical in a consumer's life.

And because a failure to accept these increased demands indicates a lack of commitment to one's work, the employee complies.

A study of employees at health insurance provider Aetna revealed that roughly one quarter of those taking in-office yoga and mindfulness classes reported a 28% reduction in their stress levels and a 20% improvement in sleep quality.

The video camera that one single mother bought for a special occasion, for example, is not much fun now.

The third element of love in Sternberg’s theory is what he calls decision commitment, the decision that one is in a love relationship, the willingness to label it as such and the commitment to maintain that relationship at least for some period of time.

So what I’ve done is I’ve taken Sternberg’s three elements of love: intimacy, passion and commitment, and I’ve listed out the different kinds of relationships you would have if you had zero, one, two or three out of the three elements.

One reason for the rise in deaths from Alzheimer’s disease in this group may be that developing this condition remains possible even after people beat the odds of dying from other diseases such as cancer.

One reason any campaign wants a popular celebrity spokesperson is because kids are attracted to them no matter what they are doing.

One day, I was invited to an important event, and I wanted to wear something special for it.

One Chicago woman, for example, discovered that daily lunches with coworkers cost her 2,000 dollars a year.

Now what’s interesting about the theory is what do you have if you only have one out of three or two out of three? What do you have and how is it different if you have a different two out of three? What’s interesting about this kind of theorizing is it gives rise to many different combinations that can be quite interesting when you break them down and start to look at them carefully.

No one should have to live with what a Texas mother described as constant stress, tension, even fear about money.

In the past few months, I’ve been travelling for weeks at a time with only one suitcase of clothes.

and obviously trade unions are one of the biggest civil society networks in the UK, he says.

Traditionally, guidelines have heavily influenced the practice of medicine, and the latest ones are expected to make doctors more conscious of the economic consequences of their decisions, even though there's no obligation to follow them.

To one group, he was identified as African-American, and another was told he was Black .

This one was chosen because it echoed the labels of groups, such as Italian Americans and Irish Americans, that had already been freed of widespread discrimination.

The University of Tennessee in Knoxville offers one example of this dilemma.

That is because the engineers, designers, regulators, operators, and all of the other skilled people needed for the new energy industry are specialists who have to be trained first , and education, like any other complicated endeavor, takes times.

Students are placed in small groups with counselors ; they have access to cultural and ethnic affinity groups, tutoring centers and also have a summer orientation specifically for first-generation students .

So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.

Perhaps a new phrase is needed, one that can bring everyone one big step closer to realizing Du Bois's original, idealistic hope: It's not the name—it's the Thing that counts..

One's professional standing and income are related to their educational background.

One study shows that our neighbours' actions are influential in changing our behaviour.

One of the ways in which all agents seem to make decisions is that they assign a lower weighting to outcomes that are going to be further away in the future, he says.

One needs the designers, and perhaps the regulators, before the builders and operators, and each group of workers in training has to know there is work waiting beyond graduation.

One kind of momentum is technological momentum.

One hundred years ago, Colored was the typical way of referring to Americans of African descent.

Now, she attributes much of her understanding of college to that: But once I got to campus, it was a completely different ball game that no one really prepared me for.

Medicare could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year if everyone used the cheaper drug, Avastin, instead of the costlier one, Lucentis.

Many students are coming from a situation where no one around them has the experience of successfully completing higher education, so they are coming in questioning themselves and their college worthiness, Jarrat continued.

It is one thing to say that we are going to shift 30 percent of our electricity supply from, say, coal to nuclear power in 20 years.

Instead of normalising the undesirable behaviour, the message needs to marginalise it, for example, by stating that if even one person buys yet another SUV, it reduces our ability to be energy-independent.

In practical terms, the new guidelines being develop could result in doctors choosing one drug over another for cost reasons or even deciding that a particular treatment — at the end of life, for example — is too expensive.

In one of the study's experiments, subjects were given a brief description of a man from Chicago with the last name Williams.

Howard, a well-regarded historically black college, had an array of resources for its first-generation students, including matching kids with counselors, connecting first-generation students to one another, and TRIO, a national program that supported 200 students on Howard's campus.

Hall's findings suggest there's an argument to be made for electing to use African American, though one can't help but get the sense that it's a decision that papers over the urgency of continued progress.

But one costs $50 a dose and the other close to $2,000.

But it was the ones that mentioned the actions of neighbours that drove down power use.

A retired member of the Public and Commercial Services Union, she is setting up one of 1,100 action groups with the support of Climate Solidarity, a two-year environmental campaign aimed at trade unionists.

Together, the team may then produce something new, unique and superior to that of any one member.

Hello Jane.Charles, among other things, you are regarded as one of the America’s great masters of the Blues, a musical idiom that’s essentially about loss, particularly the loss of romantic love.

Charles, among other things, you are regarded as one of the America’s great masters of the Blues, a musical idiom that’s essentially about loss, particularly the loss of romantic love.

American educates so manymore people at university that one can’t expect all those who go to be as intelligent as the much narrower band in British universities, says the professor Christopher Rakes at Boston university, I’m not against elitism, but I happen to like having people who are more eager to learn.

A build-it-yourself solar still is one of the best ways to obtain drinking water in areas where the liquid is not readily available.

A good neighbor is also one who likes to help out in small ways.

A grasp of how to manage color in your spaces is one of the first steps to creating rooms you'll love to live in.

A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one advertised as lost in the local paper.

A machine with a specific purpose has another quality, one that we usually associate with living things: a wish to preserve its own existence.