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PSYCHOLOGY: It probably won’t surprise you to hear that saying positive things to your boss or colleagues is good for your career. Not only that, but psychologists have found out that being nice to the people you work with may also help reduce stress on the job.

RELATIONSHIPS: You may think nothing can come between you and your best friend, but you could be wrong. Working with a close friend can change your relationship — and have a negative effect on the quality of your work.

“We know where you are.
We know where you’ve been.
We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.”

This is not the tagline from a Halloween film, but a recent quotation from Eric Schmidt, head of Google. It's creepy.

The expression “duke it out” means “fight it out”. But how did the term for a male holder of a hereditary aristocratic title turn into US slang? It’s made quite a journey.

BP CEO Tony Hayward has been in the crossfire over his reaction to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Some of his problems seem to come from failure to take into account cultural differences.