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This paper explains that, with her recognizable Asian face, intense interviewing tactics and controversial techniques, Connie Chung has been a staple in broadcast news reporting for almost four decades. The author points out that, in the early 1990s, Chung became one of the most recognizable faces on television when she went back to CBS to be the anchor and correspondent of "Saturday Night with Connie Chung" and the Sunday edition of the "CBS Evening News". The paper relates that, in 1995, the reason for Chung's dismissal ranged from her poor work relationship with Dan Rather, to her controversial interviewing techniques, to charges of sexism by Chung.

From the Paper
"Living in Washington, D.C., the Chung family was like any other family - celebrating holidays, enjoying picnics, and attending school. Like many Chinese families, education was very important to the family. One of the best educators for Chung was the television. As a child, she would pretend the vacuum hose was a microphone and would make up interviews with people. Chung attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, MD, and then went on to pursue at first Biology and then Journalism at the University of Maryland. Since their family had no sons, Connie wanted to be the successful daughter to carry the family name."

Tags:rather, awards, povich, techniques, sexism

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This paper discusses how, since the publication of the human genome sequence in 2001, biologists have developed and applied a range of novel technologies in an attempt to extract the valuable biological information encoded within the genome sequence. In particular, it examines they way in which we have set about decoding the human genome to date and provides an insight into some of the progressive new technologies currently under development.

Outline
Objectives and Achievements of the HGP
Computational Biology and Genome Annotation
Comparative Genomics
Functional Genomics
Genetic Perturbations
The Transcriptome
The Proteome
The Interactome
Conclusion: The Rise of Systems Biology

From the Paper
"The objectives of the HGP can be considered as four overlapping goals: 1. The construction of high resolution genetic and physical maps. 2. A high quality, complete genomic sequence. 3. Identification of sequence variation within the human genome. 4. A complete list characterising each and every gene. Both working drafts have achieved almost complete sequencing of the euchromatic DNA in the human genome14. The highly repetitive nature of heterochromatic DNA renders its sequencing difficult and it is unlikely to be well represented even in the final sequence, anticipated by April 2003. To date, the public consortium (IHGSC) report that 75% of the human genome sequence is in "finished" state. That is, a continuous sequence with gaps no larger than 150kb and an expected error rate of less than 1 in 10,000 nucleotides. The public consortium's effort also resulted in a high resolution physical map of the genome, constructed to facilitate accurate assembly of sequenced fragments16. However, the genome sequence itself represents a physical map of the highest possible resolution."

Tags:bioinformatics, organisms, proteomics, transcriptome

Abstract
On September 8, 2004, CBS news anchor Dan Rather aired a report on apparent gaps in presidential candidate George W. Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard. In order to portray these gaps as evidence that Bush had received preferential treatment, Rather relied on memos that had allegedly been written by Lieutenant Colonel Jerry Killian, one of Bush's superiors during the early 1970's. Immediately after Rather's report, bloggers across the Internet began to raise doubts about the authenticity of these memos. By describing how the bloggers' suspicions eventually led to Rather's downfall, this paper attempts to show that the scandal revolved, not around the actual facts of Bush's service, but around the methods that CBS had used to gather and present documentary evidence.

From the Paper
"The report that aired on "60 Minutes Wednesday" featured an exclusive interview with Ben Barnes, a former lieutenant governor of Texas and speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, who said that he helped get Bush into the Texas Air National Guard at the pinnacle of the Vietnam War. As mentioned above, the report included documents from 1972 that were allegedly written by the late Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, one of Bush's former commanders. The Lt. Col. had previously alleged that Bush's Guard records had been "scrubbed" to hide information. The story was part of an investigation alleging that Bush benefited from political favoritism in getting out of commitments to the Texas Guard. The documents, supposedly made by Killian, included criticisms of Bush's service in the Guard and allegedly showed that Bush disobeyed orders. "

Tags:Jerry, Killian, Vietnam, War

Abstract
The paper discusses the core premise of this article that people are not influenced as much by factual probability data as they are by cognitive heuristics when making a decision or judgment. The paper examines the article's idea of three important heuristics; availability, representativeness and anchoring. The paper agrees with the authors' identification of heuristics, but does not agree with the extent of their influence or role in judgment. The paper maintains that other factors also come into play and must be accounted for.

From the Paper
"The authors maintain that when a person is making a decision about something, he is likely to assign them probabilities. In the process, he will eliminate those possibilities, which have a zero probability. Once they are removed, the rest of the possibilities will be arranged according to a sub-process, which is based on three important heuristics. These heuristics are defined as availability, representativeness and anchoring. Availability is the heuristic device that is used to assess the frequency and possibility of some event. In this case frequency is connected with the number of times this event occurred in the past and possibility is connected with likelihood of it happening in the future."

Tags:probability, possibility, availability, representativeness, anchoring

Abstract
The paper relates that the drawing was accomplished by a 4 year old child in India by the name of Divij, and the gender of the child was unknown. The paper explains that a hand grip used for the drawing was most likely that used by adults, with the drawing instrument resting on the middle finger and held in place by the thumb and forefinger. The paper points out that this is, however, a quite advanced drawing position for an individual of this age. The paper relates that because of the advanced abilities of the individual anchoring did occur ("Drawing", n.d.).

From the Paper
"The drawing was accomplished by a 4 year old child in India by the name of Divij. The gender of the child was unknown. The hand grip used for the drawing was most likely that used by adults, with the drawing instrument resting on the middle finger and held in place by the thumb and forefinger. This is, however, a quite advanced drawing position for an individual of this age. Because of the advanced abilities of the individual anchoring did occur ("Drawing", n.d.). With regard to a baseline in the drawing, the baseline is indicated by the..."

Tags:art, analysis, child

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"Those who belittle ratings in the news business are naive...But it is how we get those ratings, what we do to make us competitive, that bothers me..." -- Walter Cronkite (May 10, 1976)

Introduction

Walter Cronkite, the most believable man in America, and the fictitious newsman Howard Beele in Paddy Chayevsky's "Network" share a common concern for broadcasting in the late 20th century. As ad dollars become scarcer, competition from independent networks and powerful cable programmers continue to shrink the market for traditional news presentations: offering news to viewers 24-hours a day. How "new" is news now when the viewer can ..."

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"Introduction
The ease with which beer can be made, and the relative ease with which ingredients can be obtained, means that a number of individuals have brewed their own beer for years. This was particularly true during Prohibition, but some beer drinkers have found that they can create more interesting and flavorful beers in their basements than the largest beer manufacturers can create and bottle. In recent years, these so-called home brews have been taken to market and shared with local restaurants and consumers within a particular region; some companies, such as Anchor Brewing and Boston Beer, have capitalized on the renewed interest in more flavorful beers, and have even done much to promote that interest themselves. Today, brewpubs and restaurants serving local beers are common in many large cities, and even in places with.."

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This paper discusses television broadcast news anchors, focusing on gender stereotyping in televised news. The paper focuses on the greater attention given to female anchors based on their gender, appearance and wardrobe. Additionally, the paper also notes the fact that women anchors or co-anchors were rare in TV news. The paper includes a fact sheet.

From the Paper
"Historically broadcast news anchors have been men and in the earliest days of television these men often came from radio. Television offered the potential of combining video images with the anchor, something that consumers were used to seeing in newsreels. Women entered the anchor chair of broadcast network news when Barbara Walters teamed with Harry Reasoner. Connie Chung later also took on a co-anchor role. Neither of these formats lasted, despite the success of Huntley-Brinkley in the..."

Tags:media, gender, stereotyping, news, anchors, newscasters, TV, Katie Couric, Connie Chung

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The paper reveals how business has determined that money is not the only thing that employees want. The paper looks at compensation trends today and how they are being used in the automobile industry. The paper explains how the career anchors that an employee has (i.e., what is important to the employee), strongly influences what will motivate him/her to work harder and continue to perform at a high level. The paper shows how the trend, therefore, is to compensate employees based on what they need and want. The paper concludes that if the automobile industry continues to do this, it will also continue to please its customers.

Outline:
Introduction
Trends
Career Anchors and Motivation
Conclusion

From the Paper
"There are many trends when it comes to employee motivation and compensation, because big business has determined that money is not the only thing that employees want. Instead, these employees are motivated by different things. It used to be that everyone assumed that employees wanted more money, and they could do any job forever, as long as they were given periodic raises and/or bonuses. In other words, the employer assumed that money was all that mattered to these people that worked for the company. However, employers eventually began to realize that praising employees made them smile, and having a casual day once a week made employees more relaxed."

Tags:career, anchors, money, praise, reward

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In this paper the author takes a close look at the Coca-Cola Corporation. The author looks at the management and how Douglas Daft came to the helm with his new philosophy of thinking "local", rather than global management. The author examines what has happened to Coca-Cola over the last few years in various countries and how this has effected its reputation. The author them moves on to discuss Coca-Cola's relationship with its bottlers, trade unions and profit margins. Finally the author looks at how Coca-Cola has re-established itself in China, creating a new business model and its wars with competitors.

From the paper:

"Coke's overwhelming success in the U.S. is in large part due to its bottlers. Daft's decentralization strategy reassigns much of the work performed by 29,000 laid-off employees to the "anchor bottlers" (for marketing and sales) and to sub-contractors (for plant and office maintenance) resulting in fewer direct employees worldwide. This strategy allows the company to concentrate its efforts on garnering market share while not having to take responsibility for global industrial relations. The anchor bottlers, Coca-Cola Enterprises and Cola-Cola Amatil, actually have more employees than Coca-Cola Company (CCC). The company relies on them to bottle and distribute the lion?s share of its products."

Tags:john, styth, pemberton, atlanta, profits, markets, beverage, eurpoean, union, douglas, daft, ivester, unfair, practice, anti-competitive, tactics, pepsico, orangina, anchor, bottlers, schweppes, global, management, profit, margins, trade, unions, economic, development