There is a college called Clemson that plans to build a sports center for their football players worth $55 million(!) It includes a 9 hole golf course, sand volleyball courts, bowling lanes just for starters. An “arms race” is on between American colleges to lure good football players with stellar athletic facilities They don’t discuss academic …
An article in the Washington Post earlier this month discussed vaccines. In the United States, when you mention vaccines, thoughts turn to measles, small children and bogus claims about childhood vaccination. But the real problem, says the author, David Ropeik, is the small take-up of flu vaccination. As many as 49,000 older people a year …
An estimated $42 billion is tipped annually in restaurants and bars alone in the United States. Millions of US service-sector workers are paid below minimum wage and rely on gratuities. Michael Lynn at Cornell University, who has made a career of trying to understand tipping, thinks he can explain it to some extent. Tipping starts, …
We have unprecedented ability to choose a job or profession, but down-sizing, temping and short-term contracts now mean that the average job lasts 4 years only. If you have children and a mortgage this makes for a stressful and very un-Epicurean life. Moreover, modern jobs are increasingly dull and unrewarding. Studies have shown that two …
Customer service technology is coming to American airports as part of an effort by federal agencies to make it easier for people to give the government anonymous feedback. There are four round buttons with emoticons that represent different satisfaction levels, interpreted as happy, kind of happy, not happy, really unhappy. The survey kiosk will ask …
