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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: 2002 United Nations Human Development Report (Monday, 3/3/03)
Interestingly, the United Nations, many of whose member states are not democratic, asserts in its 2002 human development report, Deepening Democracy in a Fragmented World, that democratic government has been shown to be most capable of preventing conflict and also of producing and sustaining economic well-being.
This may be a particularly important time to consider these issues, considering that three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said on television the other night that the combined Gross Domestic Product of the 22 Arab nations is about equal to that of Spain. It helps explain why so many young Arabs seem to be despairing of their future possibilities. In non-democratic societies, people are compelled to pretend that they are more alike than the really are, and to suppress efforts to fulfill their unique possibilities. Stagnation is a major consequence, and resentment and rage are others. Human freedom is an effective antidote for many life-limiting and life-destroying ailments.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Black Facts Online (Tuesday, 3/4/03)
Black Facts Online offers information about African American History, and comes to you from MIT-trained Kenneth Granderson.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: World-Wide Quality of Life Survey (Wednesday, 3/5/03)
Mercer Human Resource Consulting has conducted a world-wide quality of life survey, and their press release includes considerable detailed information. Also, here's their list of the top 50 cities in the world for personal safety, as well as their list of the top 50 cities for overall quality of life.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The International Archive of Women in Architecture (Thursday, 3/6/03)
The International Archive of Women in Architecture documents the history of women's role in architecture and is a joint project of two Virginia universities.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (Friday, 3/7/03)
The International Labor Organization, an agency of the United Nations that is older than the UN, reports that its Convention No. 182 calling for immediate action to ban the most egregious forms of child labor throughout the world has been the fastest-ratified in its history. Here's the ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: From Wallet to Waistline: The Hidden Costs of Supersizing (Saturday, 3/8/03)
The National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity reports that fast food "value meals" may not be such a good value after all, if you take health risks into account. Here's their 14-page report, From Wallet to Waistline: The Hidden Costs of Supersizing.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: World of Money (Sunday, 3/9/03)
If you're interested in knowing more about money, rather than simply having more of it, the British Museum's World of Money exhibit is likely to interest you. Their online exhibits are acceptable substitutes for those who aren't able to visit the great museum in person. Online, there is the additional benefit of not becoming "trapped." If you visit in person, you may feel an overwhelming desire to spend most of the rest of your life in the middle of one of the world's leading treasure-troves.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Economic Calendar (Monday, 3/10/03)
The Washington Post Economic Calendar tells when the key economic reports are due..
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Wall Street Poet (Tuesday, 3/11/03)
If your finances are worse, put them to verse. No, no, scratch that. Instead, be entertained by reading Wall Street Poet Michael Silverstein's satirical verse about all things financial and economic.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Salary Wizard (Wednesday, 3/12/03)
The HotJobs site's Salary Wizard can help you determine likely salary levels based on job title and geographic locations.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The History of Commercial Aviation (Thursday, 3/13/03)
With commercial airlines in the news so much lately because of their economic problems, you may be interested in learning more about the industry as a whole. Here's former commercial pilot Sarah Ward's History of Commercial Aviation.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: History of the Workhouse (Friday, 3/14/03)
For a couple of centuries, people in Britain who had no alternative, were given the opportunity to work for room and board, which made it fairly difficult to get ahead. At any rate, here's Peter Higginbotham's History of the Workhouse.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Arab Human Development Report 2002 (Tuesday, 3/25/03)
Many observers have pointed out that one reason that Islamic extremists in some Arab countries have been able to recruit young people willing to destroy themselves in service of what they are led to hope will be the destruction of the West is that they see so little future for themselves under present circumstances. After leading the world centuries ago, Arab cultures "stalled" and failed to attach themselves to the modernization movement that has swept over much of the globe. Currently, their economic development is likely to depend on other types of development. A United Nations-sponsored report published last year tells about the present state of Arab human development.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Retirement Report (Wednesday, 3/26/03)
Among many other things, the New York Times finds in its special report on retirement that Americans are living longer, but that their late years are getting harder.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Women in Military Service (Thursday, 3/27/03)
Women in Military Service traces the history of women who have served in the defense of the United States over the country's history.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: State Reports (Friday, 3/28/03)
Class Brain is intended for K-12 education, but its state reports feature offers interesting information on each of the states.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: University of Chicago Cultural Policy Center (Saturday, 3/29/03)
The University of Chicago's Cultural Policy Center conducts research and encourages public dialogue about the "practical workings of culture in our lives."
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: New Technology and Manufacturing Processes (Sunday, 3/30/03)
Technology has been one of the principal engines driving change throughout the modern world. The Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh have issued a report on new technology and manufacturing processes.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: FlightArrivals.com (Monday, 3/31/03)
If you do a lot of business travel, or for any travel for any purpose, you can get up-to-the minute information about flight Arrivals, departures, delays, and schedule changes in the U.S. and Canada on FlightArrivals.com.
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