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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Career Information (Sunday, 2/1/04)
Here are the various ways career information is presented by the University of Texas' Career Exploration Center.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Grads Online (Monday, 2/2/04)
Grads Online provides the results of surveys showing where graduates at various levels and in various majors end up after graduation. It is a service of Australia's Grad Link.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Restoring Fiscal Sanity (Thursday, 2/5/04)
Restoring Fiscal Sanity is a 114-page report from the Brookings Institution on three principal ways to balance the federal budget.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Population Research Center (Friday, 2/6/04)
The Population Research Center at the National Opinion Research Center and the University of Chicago is one of the world's leading centers for the study of social organization and demography.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Schuster's Gainsharing Articles (Saturday, 2/7/04)
Former Syracuse University Professor Michael Schuster is Managing Partner of Competitive Human Resources Strategies. For many years, Dr. Schuster has been a recognized expert on human resources and compensation strategies. Here is his collection of articles on "gainsharing."
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: EUR-Lex (Sunday, 2/8/04)
EUR-Lex presents itself as the portal to European union law.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: FAFSA and More (Monday, 2/9/04)
FAFSA stands for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. It's one of the forms you will have to fill out if you want to apply for higher education loans or grants. Here's more from the Houston Chronicle's Shannon Buggs on how to find the money necessary for attending college, now that access to higher education has been narrowing again. Many of today's young people may find that their quest for college will involve difficulties similar to those of their great-grandparents who were young in the 1930s.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: AIESEC (Tuesday, 2/10/04)
AIESEC, the International Association of Students in Business and Economics, was founded in Europe in 1948. It places students in temporary jobs within an 85-country network in order to broaden their experience and strengthen their academic studies.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The 25 Fastest Growing Technology Stars (Wednesday, 2/11/04)
Even though the U.S. tech sector has been in a slump lately, and California's Silicon Valley has been hurting, there are hi-tech companies that are doing well. Here's another for Forbes magazine's famous lists: The 25 Fastest Growing Technology Stars.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Milestones in the History of the Walt Disney Company (Thursday, 2/12/04)
With Comcast hoping to take over Disney, it might be a good time to look at the history of the company, which, for decades, seemed to be as much a part of the definition of American family life as Yellowstone National Park. Long Island's Newsday provides a summary of the principal milestones in the history of the Walt Disney Company.
Disney head Michael Eisner published his autobiography just before the company started down a long rocky patch. Now, Walt's nephew Roy Disney is doing his best to unseat Michael, hoping that this would result in a rejuvenated company.
Disney's problems are multiple. Its ABC television network has been struggling for quite sometime after it beat to death its hit "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" by putting it on four times per week, meaning that, when they finally had to pull the plug on the show, it left, not one primetime slot to fill, but four. As an indication of how well things have been going since, the network is putting "Millionaire" back on for a multi-night run late this month.
Moreover, the 9-11 terrorist attack slammed the travel industry hard, including theme parks, of which Disney has several. Also, after building its initial reputation on family-oriented animation features, it now finds itself in a situation similar to that of Eastman Kodak. Its principal competitor is not Warner Brothers, which also produces animations the old-fashioned way, but, instead, hi-tech companies that have had nothing to do with feature-film production until recently. For instance, after creating the most successful animated feature film in history, "Finding Nemo," Steve Jobs' Pixar Corporation has decided that they don't need Disney nearly as much as Disney probably needs them. For the young, Pixar may be as recognizable a brand as Disney, now that the tech company has produced nothing but hits over the past decade.
So, has Disney reached a point where it is worth more to Comcast as part of a synergistic, vertical integration plan than it is to itself? We shall see.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: eCollege (Friday, 2/13/04)
eCollege provides software and a range of services for online education programs.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: World Bank: Globalization (Saturday, 2/14/04)
The World Bank attempts to clear the air a bit on globalization by examining its nature and clarifying many of the major issues involved in the growing integration of many of the world's societies and economies.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Accessibility in Distance Education (Sunday, 2/15/04)
The NEC Foundation of America and Verizon Foundation maintain the Accessibility in Distance Education site because of a concern that persons with disabilities have full access to online materials used in distance education programs
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Q&A on Tax Refunds (Monday, 2/16/04)
What if the IRS owes YOU money? Here are some answers to some frequently wondered-about questions about tax refunds. Incidentally, many of the people to whom the Internal Revenue Service owes billions of dollars altogether will never collect because they haven't filed tax returns. Why? Because many haven't made enough to be required to file, but money may be waiting for them anyway.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: My First Day (Tuesday, 2/17/04)
My First Day is intended to give high school students a look at health care careers. However, there is much detailed information about many health-related occupations that may be of interest to college students and others, as well.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Canada e-Book (Wednesday, 2/18/04)
The Canadian government offers a nice summary of the country on its Canada e-Book site. You'll find information about the land, the people, the economy, and the state.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: RAND Institute for Civil Justice (Thursday, 2/19/04)
RAND is one of the best-known think tanks in the world. Its Institute for Civil Justice provides the public as well as governmental and other decision makers with the results of its empirical research with the intention of making the civil justice system for efficient and more equitable.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Pew Hispanic Center (Friday, 2/20/04)
America's Hispanic population has been growing in political and economic influence, so Philadelphia's Pew Charitable Trusts established its Washington, D.C.-based Pew Hispanic Center in 2001 with the intention of helping to achieve a better understanding of its impact on the nation.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Cities Feeding People (Saturday, 2/21/04)
Cities Feeding People comes from Canada's International Development Research Centre. The world's poor have been benefiting significantly from the incorporation of agriculture into urban areas. In fact, according to the Cities Feeding People site, there are about 800 million urban farmers so far.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Budget of the United States Government (Sunday, 2/22/04)
If you'd like a little light bedtime reading, here's the Budget of the United States Government for fiscal year 2005. You can download the entire humongous 63-megabyte thing and save a little wear and tear on your back--so long as you don't print it out--or you can simply examine selected sections on screen.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: University Business (Monday, 2/23/04)
Online magazine University Business tracks the many changes that are occurring across all of higher education. In addition to the publication's current edition and two-year archive, a daily email newsletter is available at no charge.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Repetitive Stress Injury (Tuesday, 2/24/04)
Here's Cay Dickson's collection of web resources having to do with repetitive stress injuries.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Grad Facts (Wednesday, 2/25/04)
Grad Facts is the part of Australia's GradLink where you can obtain information about employment issues, salaries, and labor market trends.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Richest Presidents (Thursday, 2/26/04)
If Senator John Kerry becomes the Democratic nominee and defeats George Bush in November, he will be the third-richest president in American history. Who's number one and who are some of the others? Here's Forbes magazine's list of the richest presidents.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Poverty Mapping (Friday, 2/27/04)
Funding for the Poverty Mapping site comes from Norway, but this three-year project involves a network of institutions. The site offers access to a large number of poverty mapping initiatives plus information about them, and enables you to analyze the spatial distribution of poverty throughout the world, and more.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Wealthiest People on Earth (Saturday, 2/28/04)
Here's the latest list of billionaires from Forbes magazine. Harry Potter's Mom has made the list this time.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Social Security Center (Sunday, 2/29/04)
AARP's Social Security Center provides information, news, and perspective on most of the major issues having to do with the U.S. Social Security program and its future.
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