From Lady Macbeth to Thérese Raquin, the stage has always adored a brutal murderess. So what do these parts tell us about women? Not much, writes Lyn Gardner in the Guardian - but they speak volumes about the male writers who created them.
Everyone loves a bad girl, particularly in the
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bacteria over hospital patients may keep bad infections at bay, suggest Swedish researchers. They wiped 50 patients' mouths with "good" bacteria - the probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum - and found it worked as well as an antiseptic.
The study, by Lund University Hospital, suggests that
? Here's the gist of what an American business thinker Tom Peters thinks about it:
Yes, respect your competitors, even if you hate their guts. Make sure you don't bad-mouth them - nothing makes you smaller than rubbishing a legitimate competitor. Your only goal is to demonstrate why your product is
, applied a new layer of felt, sealed it, replaced the boards and while on the roof he noticed that the roof of the garden shed was in a bad condition, so - since he had some felt left - he replaced that, too. He charged L80 for a day's work and went. Jack was a happy man again.
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-building exercise is as bad as insisting on a spontaneous group hug. And corporate yoga as a compulsory weekly activity is as bad as forcing people to go to the gym or eat salads in the workplace canteen. I have nothing against yoga - far from it - but if you push people into doing an exercise they may hate, they
tycoons?
And what about you? Would you be a decent person if you were rich? Would you give to charities or give in to greed? Would you lie, steal or break the law to make your money? If you would, then don't do it. If you have to resort to being bad, it means you have failed.
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who are no longer motivated or inspired to work hard, according to research quoted by Kate Hilpern of The Guardian. Many have become over-reliant on their wages and personal benefits. The consequences are not only bad news for highly motivated employees trying to gain promotion, says the report. Stags
had kept his bacteriological laboratory scrupulously clean, he wouldn't have discovered penicillin. Order doesn't have to be good, and mess is not always bad. So why don't you mess up your desk (if it's tidy), bin the lists and files - and become a creative disorganizer?
Eric Abrahamson is the
too tired to say anything to their partners. But it's a bad situation for employers as well as employees. In the long term people burn out and their productivity drops. As a result companies lose gifted experienced people and put off other talented individuals who do not want to sacrifice their lives
old ways unless you replace your bad habits." For a tool that business depends so heavily on, we put little thought into how we use email. Dr Karol Szlichcinski, a business psychologist, recommends providing guidelines and training to give people "ways of reducing the disruption caused by
care of the space better. But it also affects your mood - when I look up, I am staring at something designed to be calming, imitate natural light, or to help me feel more upbeat." Most companies reckon colour should be about branding. "It's not bad to use brand colours in the office
replant eyesores, they conceal them. Temporary barriers now obstruct housing and shops as well as building sites and wasteland. "They think it will make a bad impression on foreigners," explained Yan, gesturing at his one-storey home in south Beijing. Anew barrier, covered in Olympics artwork
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Generosity of spirit: offering to help other nomads in need, freeing up table space, flirting BAD LOOKS
Being on first-name terms with the baristas - a sign of poor productivity. Time to relocate
Smugness - beware the obnoxious, louder-than-necessary, Bluetooth
is impossible to keep the lid on jealousy altogether.
Which might mean we're not such lovely people - but in the workplace, jealousy might not be such a bad thing: keeping an envious eye on your coworkers could help you earn a higher salary and a faster route up the career ladder.
While most
British workers would get. This disclosure has angered the supporters of the UKIP which was the only British party to vote against Poland's entry into the EU and which, in its 2005 manifesto warns against the flood of immigrant workers from Eastern Europe which would be 'bad for Britain'.
So is there
Brytyjskie media działają według starej dziennikarskiej zasady, która głosi: "Bad news is good news" (złe wieści, to dobre wieści). Tym można tłumaczyć fakt, że codziennie na stronach brytyjskich gazet i portali internetowych pojawiają się newsy, w których Polacy najczęściej są bohaterami
minimise bad feeling if word leaks out. "The news of your pregnancy will be hot office gossip," says Carswell, "so don't mention it to any of your
colleagues if you want to keep it a secret for a while. There are no rules about who should be informed first; it depends on the dynamics and
people are able to bring colleagues along with them," says Dr Sale. "They won't give over all the credit, but they are willing to involve other people and work as a
team."
Having your whole team hate you is bad enough, but for the overly ambitious (or at least those unable to keep
begins to look like some kind of locker room; things will be thrown and unsavoury topics discussed. Too many women and cliques are more highly delineated and gossip spreads more easily. Groupthink - the phenomenon whereby everyone starts to believe the same bad idea because everyone else does - must be
People go mad at work. They keep a lid on it some of the time, but the potential for bonkers behaviour is always there, writes Alice Wignall in the Guardian.
Work has a bad reputation. Let's play a little game of word association. I say "work" and you say? Grey, boring, hard, boring
. Niestety, takie zagadnienia niekoniecznie znajdą uznanie u mieszkańców krajów europejskich. Brytyjczyk zapytany o to jak się ma (How are you?), użyje jednej z kilku formułek: I'm fine, Ok., Not too bad, itp. I nie wynika to z jego wspaniałego samopoczucia, ale jest związane ze zwyczajem kulturowym, według
Management, Fisher says that to feel irate is never bad in itself. It drives changes for the good and gives us a voice. Anger is our way of telling the world: "I am here. I exist. Take me seriously." The problem is that people do not understand their own feelings, and express them in the wrong
be a vacation. He then offers his road-to-Damascus story of enlightenment, wherein he rebounds out of a work-induced nervous breakdown with a vow to eliminate everything that was standing in the way of happiness. "BlackBerrys and e-mail aren't inherently bad," he said. "It's just like
, dzięki wsparciu UE możemy oferować ten kierunek za darmo dla 50 studentów" - wyjaśnił Pomianek w rozmowie z PAP. Podczas trzech lat studiów na kierunku Aviation Management, zajęcia prowadzone będą w języku angielskim przez zagranicznych specjalistów m.in. Ulricha Desela (Uniwersytet w Bad
, this is no bad thing.
Tea contains polyphenols that mop up the free radicals that can damage blood cells. Three cups of tea a day is associated with an 11% decrease in the risk of heart attack. That's a pretty significant statistic. And tea flavonoids can also help control surges in blood pressure
a job - get on with it...
Too much initiative. A marketing manager for a large educational charity reports that if there's one thing worse than lack of initiative, it's, completely ignoring instructions, to go off and do something else instead.
Bitching and whining. Bitching is bad, but whining
if it is in bad taste, cannot be made a criminal offense in a democratic society.
This is especially true if the mockery is of Radio Maryja, which is estimated to have four million to six million listeners a day and does not hesitate to take part in Poland's political battle, concludes the IHT
sześciu poborowych i jesteśmy z nich bardzo zadowoleni. Zwykle pracują na stanowiskach technicznych, ponieważ nie mają odpowiednich szkoleń i nie składają ślubowania - mówi "Gazecie" Michał Badach, rzecznik prasowy Komendy Miejskiej Straży Pożarnej w Lublinie. Unijne przepisy wymusiły skrócenie
. Grameen grew rapidly, covering 16 million families that make up 80% of the country's poor. This figure will reach 100% by 2010. What is remarkable is how Grameen bank upended conventional thinking in lending. The bank seeks no guarantee or references and has no binding contracts. It does chase bad debts
she hid them in her cold cream jar. But the pills melted and she decided that, all things considered, putting cold cream in Castro's mouth while he slept was a bad idea. According to this woman, Castro had already guessed that she was aiming to kill him and he duly offered her his own pistol. "
działania stawił się nazajutrz w jego gabinecie.
- Bad news, Tom, bad news - usłyszał na powitanie. - Zostałeś zracjonalizowany!
- Po fuzji banków centrala likwidowała dublujące się działy - tłumaczy Pluciński. - Także i mój. Łącznie zwolniono na całym świecie prawie 3 tys. osób.
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