May 2001 NewWork News Web Tips

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Asian Productivity Organization (Tuesday, 5/1/01)
This is the 40th anniversary of the Asian Productivity Organization which coordinates productivity improvement efforts in 18 countries.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Untapped Potential: State Earned Income Credits and Child Poverty Reduction (Wednesday, 5/2/01)
Untapped Potential: State Earned Income Credits and Child Poverty Reduction is a research brief from the National Center for Children in Poverty from Columbia University's School of Public Health.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Q&A on pensions and health care (Thursday, 5/3/01)
If you're being laid off and are concerned about pension or health care questions, here are some answers from the United States Department of Labor.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: EDIRC (Friday, 5/4/01)
According to Christian Zimmermann of the University of Quebec's Center for Research on Economic Fluctuations and Employment, there are nearly 6,000 economic institutions from more than 200 countries on the web. His Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World indexes them for your convenience.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Britannica on Economic Development (Saturday, 5/5/01)
Here's the great Encyclopedia Britannica's article on economic development for an overview, as well as access to other relevant resources.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: A Bell Tolls (Sunday, 5/6/01)
A Bell Tolls helps you compare long-distance telephone plans, international, state-to-state, and intrastate.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Greenleaf Enterprises Quote Archive (Monday, 5/7/01)
Greenleaf Enterprises is a firm headed by some very young entrepreneurs. They've put together a Quote Archive for their own use, and have decided to share it with you.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Koch Endowed Chair in Business Ethics (Tuesday, 5/8/01)
The University of St. Thomas in the Twin Cities' second major university and has developed a solid reputation with its Graduate School of Business, including its popular MBA program. The University also invests considerably in programs for the study of business ethics at both graduate and undergraduate levels.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Find Law: The Microsoft Antitrust Case (Wednesday, 5/9/01)
Find Law may offer access to more than you'll ever want to know about the Microsoft antitrust case. But, then again, maybe not, particularly if you're a lawyer.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology (Thursday, 5/10/01)
The Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology is located at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Its site also give you access to information about the Bumdy Library, which houses a collection of rare books and secondary materials of interest to those studying at the Dibner Institute.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Wharton e-Business Initiative (Friday, 5/11/01)
The Wharton e-Business Initiative comes from one of the world's great schools of business, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: American Memory (Saturday, 5/12/01)
You should not look at the American Memory site unless you are willing to accept some major risks. You risk becoming so engrossed that you might easily neglect your work, your family, and forget to eat and sleep. It is a treasure trove of more than 5 million primary sources on the history and culture of the United States from more than 90 historical collections. Collections from the Library of Congress provide its backbone.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Story of Mother's Day (Sunday, 5/13/01)
Mother's Day in the United States has a history extending over nearly a century, but a much longer past.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: 12 Principles that Every Young Person Should Know (Monday, 5/14/01)
Here are 12 basic financial principles from the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy. The list was developed for young people, but anyone who needs to know how to build financial security and avert disaster will qualify, regardless of chronological age.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Social Science Research Network (Tuesday, 5/15/01)
The Social Science Research Network uses the Internet to distribute social science research information throughout the world, and quickly, of course. Tens of thousands of abstracts are available through SSRN.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Special Report on Executive Pay (Wednesday, 5/16/01)
Here's a special report on executive pay published by Business Week about a year ago when the American economy and corporate earnings were in a somewhat different position.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Central Banks of the World (Thursday, 5/17/01)
Wharton-trained Mark Bernkopf has worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and at the White House. His Central Banks of the World site can help you find nearly any central bank nearly anywhere.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Hieros Gamos (Friday, 5/18/01)
For much of the information you may be looking for relating to law and government throughout the world, you might want to check Hieros Gamos. It contains millions of links and offers information in 60 languages.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Oxonian Nobel Laureates (Saturday, 5/19/01)
What's an "Oxonian," you may ask? A citizen of Oxonia? No, no, no. An Oxonian is someone from the world's first English-speaking university, and these are the Oxonian Nobel Laureates. Have any of them received the prize in economics? Yes, seven, in fact, and, if you can name them, you're not only entitled to the NewWork News handshake award, but also our expressions of astonishment and admiration.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Science for the Millennium (Sunday, 5/20/01)
Science is the creation of knowledge; technology is the use of knowledge. Science advances technology, and technology advances science. How is hi-tech influencing research? Visit the University of Illinois' virtual world's fair, Science for the Millennium.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Texas' Economics Department (Monday, 5/21/01)
Older folks may remember when Texas was known mostly for oil and cows. That's changed. Somewhere along the way, the second-largest U.S. state in terms of area also became the second-largest in terms of population and contains several of the nation's major cities. The Texas economy also has become highly diversified, and has been playing a key role in the hi-tech revolution. Austin, for example, is one of the leading technology areas outside California's Silicon Valley, and the University of Texas, also located in Austin, has become a world-class research university with global impact. In fact, it was in a UT dorm room that a 19-year-old Michael Dell started what now, only 17 years later, is the world's largest manufacturer of personal computers. As you might expect, the University's economics department has been instrumental in all of this, and here is the Department of Economics web site. Among other things, it offers access to a large number of working papers.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Political Science Resources on the Web (Tuesday, 5/22/01)
What we call "politics" and what we call "economics" are simply different abstractions from the same complex social systems, so there is no way to divorce the one set of concerns from the other. Michigan State University has put together Political Science Resources on the Web with 20 categories of information covering both U.S. and international politics.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Family Liaison Office (Wednesday, 5/23/01)
The United States Department of State offers advice and guidance to foreign service workers and their families through their Family Liaison Office. However, the information on the site may be of use to anyone who intends to live and work in a different culture.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Long Now Foundation (Thursday, 5/24/01)
Computer pioneer Daniel Hillis and Whole Earth founder Stewart Brand believe that powerful forces have encouraged the use of a very limited time perspective, and that this approach to things is fraught with peril. It's been about 10,000 years since the end of the last ice age, and it has been during this fairly brief period, on a geologic time scale, that all that we refer to as "civilization" has developed. Rather than thinking about the next few weeks, or, at most, the next quarter, at least somebody should be thinking about the next 10,000 years. They're trying to develop a 10,000-year clock, and the prototype has been on display in the Science Museum in London.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: students.gov (Friday, 5/25/01)
There are a great many governmental resources of special interest to students. Here's a gateway which students interested in financial aid, international study, career development, and other issues will find very helpful.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Attorney Jobs (Saturday, 5/26/01)
Lawyers can find jobs as well as obtain career guidance and information on attorneyjobs.com.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Agri-Search (Sunday, 5/27/01)
Agri-Search is a job placement firm specializing in agriculture.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Current Value of Old Money (Monday, 5/28/01)
What would that much be worth today? This is the kind of question that Current Value of Old Money can help with. This site comes from the United Kingdom and provides access to a variety of resources and references.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: A Day in the Life of... (Thursday, 5/31/01)
The Association for Computing Machinery is the first educational and scientific computing society, and was formed in 1947. Crossroads is a student-run publication supported by ACM and offers its readers an opportunity to examine A Day in the Life of...people already working in a variety of roles and types of organizations in order to gain a sense of how they got into their present positions and how they spend their time at work.

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