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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: XV International Aids Conference (Sunday, 8/1/04)
The recently completed conference has made its discussions, addresses, and reports available on the XV International Aids Conference website.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Ancestry 2000 (Monday, 8/2/04)
The 2000 Census used a modified question to determine the ethnic origins of Americans, and Ancestry 2000 reports on some of the trends in American society that appear to be reflected in the answers that people gave.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: America's Most Literate Cities (Tuesday, 8/3/04)
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater have ranked America's largest cities from most literate (Minneapolis) to least (El Paso).
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Mile by Mile (Wednesday, 8/4/04)
If you travel U.S. highways for business or pleasure, here's a site that, in many cases, will offer guidance Mile by Mile.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Cost Estimating Web Site (Thursday, 8/5/04)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has gathered together a number of online inflation calculators for a variety of purposes with a variety of foundations. Here's NASA's Cost Estimating Web Site.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (Friday, 8/6/04)
The Center for Higher Education Policy Studies was founded in 1984 and is located at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Among other things, it examines higher education issues from national and international perspectives.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Institute for Statistics (Saturday, 8/7/04)
The University of Montreal host UNESCO's Institute for Statistics, which was formed in 1999 to provide information for member states, but also is a strong resource for other interested persons on issues having to do with topics such as education, science & technology, and much more.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Guide to Retirement Living (Sunday, 8/8/04)
The Guide to Retirement Living is intended to assist people in the mid-Atlantic region with housing, home care, and resource locators, as well as articles.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Costly Cash (Monday, 8/9/04)
If you believe that the use of credit cards is the most expensive way to rent somebody else's money, you haven't taken out a "payday loan." Here's a consumer alert from the Federal Trade Commission about payday loans and the costly cash that they are.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Special Report on European Economics (Tuesday, 8/10/04)
The International Herald Tribune's special on Europe's economy contains stories on what Floyd Norris believes may be excessive gloom and what Nicola Clark feels is excessive frugality, Europe's resistance to needed immigration, what Europe overall may be able to learn from Germany, implications of Europe's eastward job flow, and the European defense of generous vacation time.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Training Consortium (Wednesday, 8/11/04)
Training Consortium offers free use of its extensive database to those who need trainers, consultants, speakers, or venders
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (Monday, 8/16/04)
Who's sick and who's dying? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are gathering data in order to track the impact of a variety of diseases and accidents. Here's the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (Tuesday, 8/17/04)
Here are some of the main features of the 1994 law that is intended to protect the civilian jobs of members of the National Guard the Reserves who are called to active duty: the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: World Conservation Monitoring Centre (Wednesday, 8/18/04)
The United Nations Environment Programme's World Conservation Monitoring Centre attempts to maintain a global perspective on biodiversity issues.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Canadian Economy Online (Thursday, 8/19/04)
Canada is a huge country with a small population, but it has one of the world's leading industrial economies and one of the higher standards of living on the earth. If you'd like to learn more about the Canadian economy, here's help from Canadian Economy Online, including a cartoon character with a cape.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Best Colleges? (Friday, 8/20/04)
Here's the latest ranking of the nation's best college and universities in the judgment of the people at US News magazine who make their living doing that sort of thing.
However, in a nation still containing many people who will buy books or even empty book bindings to keep on their shelves in an effort to impress their friends, or spend major money on fake degrees from online diploma mills, it shouldn't be surprising that even the idea of a popular magazine's ranking colleges and universities remains controversial.
For decades, it has been possible for the truly assiduous to obtain an excellent education for nothing at the public library, and information and academic resources are more readily available now than ever before. Still, in a culture in which shadows are still regarded as more important than substance, many people will be drawn to an institution simply BECAUSE US News or some other "prestigious" organization has ranked it high in their listings. It simply offers something else for families willing and able to write big checks something else to brag about. It's all reminiscent of Oscar Wilde's famous remark about people who "know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
In actual fact, a principal factor in determining the level of genuine education that an individual achieves is that individual himself or herself, whatever the means at that person's disposal.
At any rate, this is an area in which the destination is far more important than the route traveled, even though many Americans still believe that an understanding of General Relativity Theory, say, is of greater value if it has been achieved at a fancy, expensive college than if it has been achieved at a school few have heard of or from a book checked out of the public library in Valley City, North Dakota. In short, whether or not rankings such as those offered by publishers wishing to sell more magazines make any sense, institutions which want to maintain themselves as employment centers in an increasingly competitive climate are forced to take them seriously. Despite everything, look for hundreds of conventional colleges to go dark over the next twenty-five years.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Interagency Council on Homelessness (Saturday, 8/21/04)
In 1987, Congress established the Interagency Council on Homelessness.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Smart Growth Online (Sunday, 8/22/04)
There's certainly been a lot of dumb growth; i.e., check out some American cities, such as Houston, which seem to have developed like some sort of malignancy without zoning regulations. Many people believe that it's finally time for some really smart growth, so here is the Smart Growth Online web site.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Bureau of International Labor Affairs (Monday, 8/23/04)
The Bureau of International Labor Affairs is an agency of the United States Department of Labor.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Job and Career Opportunities (Tuesday, 8/24/04)
If you would like to work for the United States Department of Commerce, their Job and Career Opportunities page is the place to start.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Consumer Reports (Wednesday, 8/25/04)
Consumer Reports is a print magazine as well as a web site. Full access to the online Consumer Reports product reports requires a subscription fee, but there's also much that is free to online explorers.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2003 (Thursday, 8/26/04)
Here's a downloadable version of the new report on Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States for last year from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Average Poverty Rates by State (Friday, 8/27/04)
Poverty is not evenly distributed across the U.S. states, and nobody has expected that it should be. Here are the Average Poverty Rates by State from the Census Bureau.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change (Saturday, 8/28/04)
The Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change is located at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and uses the city of Cleveland as a laboratory for the study of urban poverty, social change, and interactions between the two.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (Sunday, 8/29/04)
The Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion is likely to be of interest to sociologists, social workers, and others, and comes from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Council on Foreign Relations: Campaign 2004 (Monday, 8/30/04)
The 75-year-old Council on Foreign Relations has been examining the foreign policy statements made by the two major presidential candidates in the 2004 campaign.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Work-Life Research Centre (Tuesday, 8/31/04)
The Work-Life Research Centre describes a new research study at Manchester Metropolitan University focusing on Parenthood and the changing European Workplace.
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