July 2000 NewWork News Web Tips

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Lectures Online (Saturday, 7/8/00)
Lectures Online is a site where professors can share materials for their lectures. It was created and is maintained by Joshua Kim of West Virginia University, and he welcomes contributions of most kinds from college and university faculty.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: About Telecommuting (Sunday, 7/9/00)
Here are most of the things you might want to know About Telecommuting.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Introduction to Pre-employment Drug Testing for HR and Security Professionals (Monday, 7/10/00)
Introduction to Pre-employment Drug Testing for HR and Security Professionals is an article by Les Rosen, President of Employment Screening Resources. They're in the business about which he writes.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Science and Technology from PBS (Tuesday, 7/11/00)
If you feel you've been falling a bit behind on science and technology during a time when these forces are driving the American economy and transforming life over much of the world, this may be a good place to catch up. PBS has done a lot of programs on science and technology, and their web site also acts as a gateway to additional resources.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: CyberSchoolBus (Wednesday, 7/12/00)
If you're teaching or wanting to learn more about global issues, the United Nations can help through this collection of resources. Here's CyberSchoolBus.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice (Thursday, 7/13/00)
The National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice is an organization of religious who support the "living wage" movement, among other things.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: guru.com (Friday, 7/14/00)
guru.com is one of several sites that are intended to help independent professionals connect with contract projects.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: A Thousand Years of Population Trends (Saturday, 7/15/00)
Here's an excellent examination of why population trends during the past 500 years or so have been so atypical of humanity's experience on this planet, and it comes to you from the Christian Science Monitor. For most of the history of Homo Sapiens Sapiens, global population remained relatively small and increased only slightly over many years, sometimes even decreasing dramatically, as in Europe during the "Black Plague" of the mid-14th century. Recently, though world population has exploded, and the mathematics of an explosion apply. There were about 1 billion persons in the world as recently as 1840; now there are more than 6 billion. However, there are signs that this explosion may be cooling a bit, and, of course, population is growing much more rapidly in some parts of the world than in others. In the U.S., only Hispanics are reproducing fast enough to replace themselves at the moment. American Blacks and Whites are not. Population growth has been great in Africa during recent years, but the world's eyes are on that continent now because of the devastation of AIDS, which some experts are saying promises to be the most catastrophic infectious disease in human history. That's saying a lot, considering how the plague changed European history during the 14th century, requiring centuries for European population to recover.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: IRS Tax Statistics (Sunday, 7/16/00)
The Internal Revenue Service probably knows more about how much individuals and companies in America are making, who's paying what taxes and getting what refunds, and much more. They won't tell you about individual cases, but they do offer a tremendous array of tax statistics that can offer a revealing perspective on the American economy.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Kids Can Free the Children (Monday, 7/17/00)
Kids Can Free the Children comes from an organization called Free the Children which helps children work on behalf of children, in particular those who labor when they should be doing the things that children should be doing.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: HispanicBusiness (Tuesday, 7/18/00)
HispanicBusiness offers a variety of resources, news, and market research.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Workforce Online (Wednesday, 7/19/00)
Workforce Online is another online magazine for human resource professionals.

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