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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Fortune 500 (Tuesday, 4/1/03)
Here's the 2003 edition of the Fortune 500. Quick!--can you name the five largest corporations in terms of revenues? Okay, which is number 1? Hint: It's also the world's largest retailer and started as a single store in Arkansas about forty years ago, "so help me, Sam."
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: State Health Facts Online (Wednesday, 4/2/03)
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation offers state health facts online to enable you to compare the 50 states as well as US territories on most matters having to do with health.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Aging Clinical Research Center (Thursday, 4/3/03)
Population growth has been leveling off in the industrial democracies, and even declining in some regions. Demographers estimate that global population is likely to increase to about 8 billion, before stabilizing later in the 21st century. One of the implications of slowed population growth is that a smaller proportion of many national populations is made up of young people now, which is to say that, on average, these populations are aging.
In the United States during the 1960s, there was considerable social upheaval, in part, because there were so many young people. Before long, similar upheaval may occur because there will be so many old people, and many of them will be the same people--the huge "baby-boomer" generation.
With so many older people, the prevalence of Alzheimer's Disease can be expected to increase commensurably. Large numbers of disabled old people will result in considerable social and economic strain. While no overall solutions are available, and nobody expects a "magic bullet," encouraging research on the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's is occurring at what could not be a better time. Here's one of the places: Stanford University's Aging Clinical Research Center.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Counting on the Internet (Friday, 4/4/03)
Philadelphia's Pew Foundation sponsored this study of how Americans use the Internet, based on a sample of 2,000 persons. Among its findings: People who report using the Internet regularly are far more likely to say they that they expect to be able to find information about topics such as health care or commerce online, than those who don't use it, suggesting that many non-users don't know what they're missing. Here's John B. Horrigan and Lee Rainie's 17-page report, Counting on the Internet.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Low Income Housing Coalition: Advocates' Guide (Saturday, 4/5/03)
The National Low Income Housing Coalition is member-supported and works toward ensuring that all Americans will have affordable housing. Here's the Coalition's advocates' guide.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Who's making what (Sunday, 4/6/03)
Who's making what reports on salaries, growth projections, and job satisfaction from a sample of 150 occupations, as gathered by Business 2.0.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Economic Times (Monday, 4/7/03)
India has the world's second-largest population, with demographers forecasting that it is likely to surpass China later this century and become number one. India also is the world's largest democracy. Just about anything one can say about India must involve the use of very large numbers. For instance, while there are an enormous number of impoverished people, the country's educated, affluent, middle-class makes up a larger consumer market than the populations of Germany and France combined. India has a vigorous and globally-important information technology sector, as well as a huge film-making industry. There is much additional business activity in India as well, and The Economic Times reports on it.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Family Budget Calculator (Tuesday, 4/8/03)
The Family Budget Calculator helps you determine what various kinds of families need to make ends meet in 400 American communities. Data were based on the buying power of 1999 dollars, so its best to plug the result into an inflation calculator to see how much you would need in 2003 in order to have roughly the same buying power.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Best Graduate Schools (Wednesday, 4/9/03)
Here's the latest listing of America's best graduate schools, according to U.S. News magazine, at least according to the mag's criteria.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Business and War (Thursday, 4/10/03)
Business and War is the Washington Post's special report on the business and economic implications of the war in Iraq.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Last-Minute Tax Guidance (Friday, 4/11/03)
If you intend to file your taxes on time, it's probably a good idea not to wait any longer. Here's some advice and guidance from USA Today.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Hall of Black Achievement Gallery (Saturday, 4/12/03)
Bridgewater State College maintains the Hall of Black Achievement as a repository of the achievements and contributions of people of color.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Exploding Dictionary (Sunday, 4/13/03)
The Exploding Dictionary is the product of extensive cross-referencing of publicly available dictionaries, and includes Technojargon, a recent adjunct. Word enthusiasts will find it entertaining and many people will find it useful.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: EarthTrends (Monday, 4/14/03)
EarthTrends is an environmental information portal sponsored by the World Bank, the Rasmussen Foundation, and other organizations. Among other things, it tracks social and economic trends.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915 (Tuesday, 4/15/03)
How did Americans work and recreate a century ago? The Library of Congress' collection of very early motion pictures can provide some hints, and many of these films are available for viewing online. America at Work, America at Leisure is part of the great library's American Memory collection.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Marketplace (Wednesday, 4/16/03)
Marketplace with David Brancaccio is owned by Minnesota Public Radio and is distributed throughout much of the world on stations affiliated with Public Radio International as well as other systems, including online through its website.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Russian Basic Science (Thursday, 4/17/03)
What happens when an authoritarian superpower becomes an underdeveloped country with a market-based economy and fledgling democratic institutions? Suddenly, it isn't able to pay some of the world's top scientists, some of whom were responsible for creating the first artificial satellite? Suddenly, all the computers are antiquated or broken down. What then?
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace published a report in 2002 that assessed the state of science in what once was the leading part of the old Soviet Union. Here's Russian Basic Science After Ten Years of Transition and Foreign Support.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: American Family Immigration History Center (Friday, 4/18/03)
The American Family Immigration History Center at Ellis Island contains the records of 22 million passengers and ship crew who passed through Ellis Island from 1892 through 1924.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Regulations.gov (Saturday, 4/19/03)
Want to tell somebody what you think of federal regulations? Whoops--wait, watch your language. Don't bother telling us. You can tell your brother-in-law, if you want, but maybe you'd like to tell the feds themselves. You can do that on Regulations.gov.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Human-Computer Interaction Lab (Sunday, 4/20/03)
At work, as well as most other areas of life, humans and computers probably are going to be working together from now on throughout the world. Humans can adapt to computers to some extent through learning, but there is more potential for designing computers with human capacities and limitations in mind in the first place. Here's the University of Maryland's Human-Computer Interaction Lab.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Fair Housing Alliance (Monday, 4/21/03)
The National Fair Housing Alliance is dedicated to the elimination of housing discrimination in the United States.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Fastest-Growing Companies (Tuesday, 4/22/03)
Here's Fortune magazine's latest list of 100 fastest-growing companies. The magazine's editors realize that you have good reason to wonder how much of the growth that companies report is real and how much is fiction, so check the magazine's description of its methodology.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: UK online (Wednesday, 4/23/03)
UK online offers people in the United Kingdom and elsewhere ready access to government information and services.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Teenage Life Online (Thursday, 4/24/03)
Philadelphia's Pew Foundation has been studying the impact of the Internet on American life. Here's one of their reports: Teenage Life Online: The Rise of the Instant-Message Generation and the Internet's Impact on Friendships and Family Relationships.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Institute for the Study of International Migration (Friday, 4/25/03)
This is a period during which large numbers of people are moving around the world for many reasons. Here's Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Canadian Agriculture Library (Saturday, 4/26/03)
Canada is a very big country with a relatively small population, but it has a large agricultural sector. The Canadian Agriculture Library is the country's principal source of information on agriculture and food.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Understanding Poverty (Sunday, 4/27/03)
The World Bank focuses on dimensions, measures, trends, and goals on its Understanding Poverty site.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Advancing Women (Monday, 4/28/03)
There are hundreds of jobs sites on the Internet where you can post your resume with the hope that it will be seen by an employer who has been looking for you but may not know it yet. AdvancingWomen.net is one that specializes in women in the financial services industry.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: ABC Directory of UK Business & Management Courses (Tuesday, 4/29/03)
The ABC Directory of UK Business & Management Courses is a joint project of the Association of Business Schools and Biz/ed, and offers information on courses available for both undergraduates and postgraduates throughout the United Kingdom.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Experience Works (Wednesday, 4/30/03)
Experience Works used to be called "Green Thumb," and was established in 1965. It's a nonprofit organization providing training and services for older workers. It says that it reaches 125,000 people throughout the U.S. each year.
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