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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Executive Compensation Report (Friday, 7/1/05)
The Washington Post's Executive Compensation Report lists the D.C. area's 100 highest-paid executives.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Institute for Urban and Minority Education (Saturday, 7/2/05)
Teachers College at Columbia University has long been a leader in educational research. Here's their Institute for Urban and Minority Education, which was founded in 1973.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Alan Shawn Feinstein International Famine Center (Sunday, 7/3/05)
A huge rock concert has been attempting to call public attention to global poverty with the hope that representatives at the next G8 conference will hear from constituents who want poverty ended. It may be a good time to examine the examine the Alan Shawn Feinstein International Famine Center's holistic approach to dealing with famine.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: SAGE Crossroads (Monday, 7/4/05)
SAGE Crossroads comes from the Alliance for Aging Research and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is dedicated to the study of issues having to do with aging and longevity.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: BioEd Online (Tuesday, 7/5/05)
It's probably accurate to say that the 18th century was the century of physics, the 19th the century of biology, the 20th century of physics again, and, from all indications, the 21st century probably will be known as the century of biology again. Baylor College of Medicine and Texas A&M University maintain theirBioEd Online website in order to distribute biological information to educators and other interested persons.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Crude Oil Prices: 1861-2005 (Thursday, 7/7/05)
If you've been alarmed at the high cost of crude oil, it may or may not console you to know that crude oil prices reached their highest levels during modern times about twenty-five years ago. In 2005 dollars, the price of crude was even higher around the time of the American Civil War, but that was long before the global economy became dependent on fossil fuels, particularly petroleum. Forbes magazine offers a detailed examination of crude oil prices from 1861 to 2005.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Library for the Environment (Friday, 7/8/05)
The National Library for the Environment is intended to be the only portal you will need in order to gain access to information and data relating to the environment. The site is maintained by the National Council for Science and the Environment.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Woman's Hour (Saturday, 7/9/05)
Woman's Hour on BBC Radio also has a website.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: G8 Gleneagles (Sunday, 7/10/05)
G8 summits have been going on since 1975, but they used to be called "G7 summits" before Russia was added following the collapse of the old Soviet Union. The latest meeting of the world's richest industrial countries was held in Scotland. Here's information about G8 Gleneagles.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Explaining Recent Changes in Home Prices (Monday, 7/11/05)
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago offers this analysis in its July 2005 Fed Letter: Explaining Recent Changes in Home Prices.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Rural Development (Tuesday, 7/12/05)
Here's some of what he Chinese government has wanted the world to know recently about rural development in the world's most populous country.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: U.S. National Debt Clock (Wednesday, 7/13/05)
The U.S. National Debt Clock site claims that the National Debt has increased by about $1.64 billion per day since the end of September last year. It also estimates that your share of the total debt is more than $26,400.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: U. S. Economy at a Glance (Thursday, 7/14/05)
You can click on any state in this map of the United States and get summary information about that state's economy. It's all part of the Economy at a Glance service from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: World Health Organization: Influenza (Friday, 7/15/05)
In the grimmest of competitions, one might say that the Black Death of the mid-14th century was history's worst pandemic, in terms of the proportion of European populations that it killed. On the other hand, if you think in terms of actual numbers of deaths, the great flu epidemic of 1918, which killed at least tens of millions and possibly hundreds of millions of people throughout much of the world, was the worst. At any rate, the World Health Organization takes influenza very seriously, and here's their site that specializes in it.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: UN News Centre (Saturday, 7/16/05)
Here's world news as well as access to United Nations information from the UN News Centre.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Economic Development Administration (Sunday, 7/17/05)
Here's the Economic Development Administration from the United States Department of Commerce.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Wealth of Nations (Monday, 7/18/05)
If you've never gotten around to reading Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, published in the propitious year of 1776 and often credited with marking the onset of modern economics, here's your chance. Actually, the version included in the Harvard Classics is an abridgment, but so is its title. Smith's original title is An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, and Bibliomania offers the full text of the great man's original book.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: 2003 Survey & Analysis of Teacher Salary Trends (Tuesday, 7/19/05)
Here's the 2003 Survey & Analysis of Teacher Salary Trends from the American Federation of Teachers.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Northwest Historical Timeline (Wednesday, 7/20/05)
Northwest Airlines presents a decade-by-decade overview of its own history. Here's the Northwest Historical Timeline.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Members of the Council (Thursday, 7/21/05)
Here are the people who have served on the President's Council of Economic Advisors and their dates of service since the Council was established in 1946.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Knowledge for Development (Friday, 7/22/05)
The World Bank is betting that those regions of the world that will have the greatest economic success through the remainder of this century will be those with access to the latest knowledge. Here's the Bank's Knowledge for Development site.
Incidentally, while China's blazing economy is fueled by foreign investors, including American, European, and Japanese companies, the Chinese government doesn't allow foreigners to acquire controlling interest in Chinese companies, and Chinese companies are controlled by the Chinese government. Another consequence of this policy is that foreign companies bring a lot of their technology and knowledge with them when they partner with China. It's a way that the autocratic Chinese government can attract both capital and technology from the developed world.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Archive of Early American Images (Saturday, 7/23/05)
What did the Americas look like during their early years.? The Archive of Early American Images from Brown University can help answer that question.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: ScotlandsPeople (Sunday, 7/24/05)
Is there a Scot in your ancestry? The 43 million records in ScotlandsPeople go back to 1553.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Council of Nonprofit Associations (Monday, 7/25/05)
The National Council of Nonprofit Associations represents a huge and bewildering array of nonprofit organizations in the United States. Among other things, it ties together more than 22,000 member organizations in common cause.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Ellis Island History (Thursday, 7/28/05)
The National Park Service at the U.S. Department of the Interior provides a look at the history of Ellis Island, where tens of millions of the ancestors of many Americans entered the United States.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: China's Top 100 Companies (Friday, 7/29/05)
The Chinese government controls the country's economic, as well as political life, although individuals and companies outside the country have been invited to share ownership in recent years, which is how so much capital has been attracted to fuel the growth of the booming Chinese economy. At any rate, Business Week presents Standard & Poor's list of China's Top 100 Companies.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: A Century of Great African American Speeches (Saturday, 7/30/05)
If, when thinking of African-American speeches, only Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech comes to mind, you've been missing a lot. Here's Say it Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches from American Radio Works.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Federal Trade Commission (Sunday, 7/31/05)
The Federal Trade Commission has been conducting its regulatory activities since 1914.
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