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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Answers for Reservists (Thursday, 5/1/03)
The United States Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration offers a useful collection of questions and answers for reservists called to active duty.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence (Friday, 5/2/03)
The early 20th century notion that all members of the human race can be lined up on a single scale from low to high in a way that meaningfully sums up their abilities has been discredited by mountains of psychological research, and the old "IQ" concept isn't used much anymore. There are a lot of different ways of being "smart," and some are more important in certain situations than others. In many work settings, "emotional intelligence" can be very important, and the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence has been promoting its study in the workplace since 1996.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Statistics Indonesia (Saturday, 5/3/03)
Indonesia is a country that many people in the world don't often think much about, but they probably should. Its more than 230 million people are spread over the world's largest archipelago, and it also has the world's largest Islamic population. And, oh yes...it's a steaming, boiling cauldron of problems, including, but not limited to economic problems. For more details of nearly every kind, here's Statistics Indonesia.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Community Development Corporations (Sunday, 5/4/03)
The Urban Institute's Christopher Walker examines Community Development Corporations and their Changing Support Systems. His 69-page report is based on research in 23 cities over a period of ten years.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Career Advice for Older Workers (Monday, 5/5/03)
Career Advice for Older Workers is a service of Netscape and Monster.com.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Special Report: Job Exportation (Tuesday, 5/6/03)
Over the years, we've reported on one of America's major exports: jobs. Recently, SUNY's Professor William Raynor broke new ground with his article, "Globalization and the Offshore Outsourcing of White-Collar Jobs." Now, CNN/Money reporter Mark Gongloff offers a special report on "U.S. Jobs Jumping Ship."
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Picturing Business in America (Wednesday, 5/7/03)
If you've ever wondered what influential business people look like and really expect that they look different from everybody else, here's an opportunity to test your hypothesis. Picturing Business in America is from the National Portrait Gallery and the Wall Street Journal. It's a collection of small portraits of business leaders who have appeared in the publication since 1979.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Affordable Assisted Living (Thursday, 5/8/03)
Part of Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, Affordable Assisted Living: Surveying the Possibilities is a 112-page report by Jenny Schuetz. Assisted living facilities are intended to enable elders with limitations or frailties to live as independently as possible, while also receiving necessary assistance.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Living on the Edge (Friday, 5/9/03)
Alan Berube and Benjamin Forman of the Brookings Institution examine, not the flight from central cities to the suburbs, but decentralization within the central cities themselves during the 1990s. Here's their report: Living on the Edge: Decentralization Within Cities in the 1990s.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Working in Paterson (Saturday, 5/10/03)
Paterson, New Jersey identifies itself as the first planned industrial center in the United States, and was founded in 1791. The Library of Congress conducted an occupational culture study in 1994 in which many people in Paterson talked about their work lives. There are hundreds of recordings and thousands of photographs and other items in Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Making Democracy Work (Sunday, 5/11/03)
Here's a 126-page report from University of Virginia on how the executive branch of government has been reorganized throughout the century just past. Here's Making Democracy Work: A Brief History of Twentieth-Century Federal Executive Reorganization.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Attending to Early Modern Women Resources (Monday, 5/12/03)
Persons who have special interest in the status of European and American women currently and during recent centuries may be helped by Attending to Early Modern Women Resources from the University of Maryland Libraries.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Globastat (Tuesday, 5/13/03)
Globastat: Country Rankings and World Statistics summarizes information in more than 140 categories on more than 190 countries, and draws on the CIA World Factbook.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Privatization.org (Wednesday, 5/14/03)
Privatization.org comes from an organization that calls itself the Reason Public Policy Institute. They say that they've worked with both Republican and Democratic governors on the streamlining of government.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Job Corps (Thursday, 5/15/03)
Here's the official Jobs Corps site from the United States Department of Labor.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: State of the U.S. Economy (Friday, 5/16/03)
The Washington Post provides an overview of economic news, reports, and other information on its State of the U.S. Economy page.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Official Federal Land Patent Records Site (Saturday, 5/17/03)
The Official Federal Land Patent Records Site from the Bureau of Land Management contains records of more than two million federal land titles from 1820 through 1908.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: E-Comp (Sunday, 5/18/03)
If you look up "Apple Computer" on E-Comp, you'll see that CEO Stephen Jobs receives a salary of $1 per year. You'll also see that this is not the whole story. E-Comp offers a database showing the compensation of 50,000 senior executives in more than 12,000 publicly-traded companies. You'll need to be a paying subscriber to access the entire database, but you can look up individual companies at no cost.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Score (Monday, 5/19/03)
Score: Counselors to America's Small Business is the organization of retired executives that helps people make their small businesses succeed. They've renovated their site, including an expansion of the learning center and the addition of Small Business Toolbox, which provides access to hundreds of other sites.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: SBA (Tuesday, 5/20/03)
The United States Small Business Administration has revamped its web site with the hope that it will be more useful to persons starting or running small businesses.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: China's Free Markets (Wednesday, 5/21/03)
China's economy has come a long way since the late 1990s when "free markets" referred mostly to farmers selling their own fresh produce. However, the creator of this photographic essay on China's Free Markets at the time felt that they represented an historic change of direction from a few years before. That turned out to be correct.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Geography of U.S. Diversity (Thursday, 5/22/03)
The U.S. Census Bureau special report on the Geography of U.S. Diversity presents distribution maps across the country.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Land Grant Institutions (Friday, 5/23/03)
Harvard and the College of William and Mary were America's first institutions of higher learning, and more followed. However, there was growing concern that higher education would be most accessible to America's privileged, which could result in a permanent aristocratic class much along the lines of many European societies. The Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890 were intended to finance the establishment of "colleges for the common man," which also were intended to advance the economic development of the United States. Here are America's Land Grant Institutions that got their start when President Lincoln signed the first Morrill Act into law during the Civil War.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Alcohol Cost Calculator (Saturday, 5/24/03)
What is alcoholism costing your business, and what can you do about it? Here's a an Alcohol Cost Calculator which can help you estimate the costs based on your industry and the number of employees in your company.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Virtual College Tours (Sunday, 5/25/03)
If you'd like to tour a large number of colleges and universities while staying where you are, CampusTours' Virtual College Tours may be of interest.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: History of Memorial Day (Monday, 5/26/03)
Do you know what Memorial Day was called originally? Do you know which war gave rise to it? Cable television's The History Channel answers these and many other questions in its History of Memorial Day.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: HIV at Work (Tuesday, 5/27/03)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offer a range of resources to assist persons concerned about HIV and AIDS in the workplace.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Domini 400 Social Index (Wednesday, 5/28/03)
The Domini 400 Social Index is a "socially-conscious" common stock index that monitors the performance of 400 American corporations. Selection is based on a number of broad social criteria.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The National Science Foundation in the 21st Century (Thursday, 5/29/03)
Here's that new report from the National Science Foundation on how it can best support science and engineering research and development during the new century.
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