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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: World Bank Institute (Sunday, 5/1/05)
The World Bank carries on a great deal of research and has many ongoing programs. You can learn about many of them on their World Bank Institute site.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Public Sector Transparency (Monday, 5/2/05)
The Development Gateway examines transparency in governmental transactions, and, according to the Scout Report, may be helpful to policy-makers as well as others interested in government. The site includes commentary from governmental leaders from several countries.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: International Trade Theory & Policy Analysis (Tuesday, 5/3/05)
Here are many of the necessary materials for a university course in International Trade Theory & Policy Analysis from Professor Steven Suranovic of George Washington University in Washington, D. C.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Columbia Gazetteer of North America (Wednesday, 5/4/05)
With its 50,000 entries, the Columbia Gazetteer of North America can help you find out where on earth you are and also something about where you are, assuming that you are somewhere in North America.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Yahoo's MBA's (Thursday, 5/5/05)
Yahoo lists a dozen and a half institutions through which you can earn an MBA degree, many of them online.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: DivesityBusiness.com (Friday, 5/6/05)
DivesityBusiness.com claims to be the primary Internet resource for minority-owned small businesses and large corporate buyers.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (Saturday, 5/7/05)
George Schultz has been Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Treasury, and Secretary of State. He also served on President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisors, has been on the faculties of the University of Chicago and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he also received his Ph.D. in industrial economics and worked with two of the 20th century's most noted work organization experts, Douglas McGregor and Carl Frost, and has been president of the Bechtel Corporation. He also founded the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University in 1982.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Tsunami Recovery (Sunday, 5/8/05)
Here's information about the United Nations Development Programme on tsunami recovery to assist affected regions in South and Southeast Asia.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Canadian Geographic Atlas Online (Monday, 5/9/05)
Canada's population is estimated to be slightly smaller than that of California, and a great proportion of its people live within a few miles of the U.S. border. However, this beautiful country has a vast and varied land area. The Canadian Geographic Atlas Online is interactive and also includes a version for children. Much of it is bilingual as well.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: OS2i (Tuesday, 5/10/05)
OS2i stands for "Outsourcing To India" and claims to be among the major organizations for helping companies send jobs from the United Kingdom or the U.S. to parts of the world where labor costs much less.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Strange Days on Planet Earth (Wednesday, 5/11/05)
National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth is the website companion to the four-part PBS documentary series that explores unsettling trends that may be in the process of making Earth into a planet that would be unfamiliar to the last several dozen generations of modern humans. If you've been looking for something to take your mind off your drooping portfolio, this may be it.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Confidential Jobs (Thursday, 5/12/05)
Who said that his job was so secret, even he didn't know what he was doing. We don't know either. However, if you want to search for a new job and don't want your present boss to know you're looking, Confidential Job may be able to help you.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Handango (Friday, 5/13/05)
Handango is an online store selling software for the major PDAs. It carries more than 25,000 programs for the Palm, about 20,000 for the Windows handheld, and about 900 for Blackberry units, although that number has doubled in recent months.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Center for Labor Research and Education (Saturday, 5/14/05)
The Center for Labor Research and Education is intended to connect UCLA's scholarly activities with California labor. The Center is part of the UCLA's Institute of Industrial Relations.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: US Science and Technology Cooperation with the Islamic World (Sunday, 5/15/05)
Centuries ago, at least for those in the West who didn't know about China, Islamic cultures were the most advanced in the world, while the Americas were unknown in Europe or the Middle East, and Western Europe was backward, not only in terms of living standards, but also in terms of knowledge and technological prowess. In fact, only one of Plato's dialouges, Timaeus, was known in Western Europe during the Medieval period before knowledge of the Classical era was restored to Western Europe through the agency of Islamic scholars who had preserved it for centuries following the disintegration of Rome's western empire.
Then, Islamic cultures stagnated and Islamic populations fell far behind the West technologically and economically, to the point where dozens of Islamic countries in the Middle East now have a combined gross domestic product equivalent to that of Spain. It may seem ironic that large numbers of people are seeking security and certainty through the vigorous and uncompromising invocation of ancient religious ideas in their most literal and concrete forms both in some of the poorest Islamic countries, as well as in one of the world's richest countries, the United States.
It isn't easy to see how the widening gulf between a resurgence of attitudes that helped characterize the period of the so-called Crusades can be narrowed, as the world becomes an increasingly dangerous place for reasons that most people didn't anticipate during the Cold War. One possible way in which the United States might improve its fractured relationships with Islamic peoples is outline in this 112-page paper by Michael Levi and Michael d'Arcy from the famed Brookings Institution: Untapped Potential : US Science and Technology Cooperation with the Islamic World.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Eldis (Monday, 5/16/05)
Scout at the University of Wisconsin in Madison regards Eldis as one of the best sites offering information on global development. The website comes from the University of Sussex in the UK.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Genographic Project (Tuesday, 5/17/05)
A few years ago, when Dr. Spencer Wells was about the age of some articles of clothing that some people we know still wear, he already was a Harvard Ph.D., had been a Stanford post-doc, and had headed Oxford University's population genetics project. He also had produced a widely cited book, Journey of Man, and had produced and hosted a companion PBS documentary. Now, he's heavily involved with the National Geographic Society and IBM in the Geneographic Project which is intended to "assemble the world's largest collection of DNA samples to map how humankind populated the planet."
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Greece in Numbers (Wednesday, 5/18/05)
The National Statistical Service of Greece presents Greece in Numbers, a 27-page compilation of data that describes one of the oldest countries on earth.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Academy of Public Administration (Thursday, 5/19/05)
News flash! The federal government actually PROMOTES efficiency. Really. Congress has chartered the National Academy of Public Administration in order to assist American government at all levels in increasing operational effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Opinion Research Center (Friday, 5/20/05)
The National Opinion Research Center is one of the oldest and most highly respected survey research organizations and is located at the University of Chicago.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: C-SPAN (Saturday, 5/21/05)
It's not from the government, it's not from PBS, but there's nothing else quite like C-SPAN, and it's hard to see how American society could get along without it at this point. It comes to you from the cable television industry, but is available on satellite services as well.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (Sunday, 5/22/05)
The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme works with other international organizations to help societies use scientific knowledge to help them develop in harmony with the natural environment.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: NursingExecutives.com (Monday, 5/23/05)
There are zillions of job sites on the Internet, many of them highly specialized. Here's NursingExecutives.com, which focuses on leadership-level nursing positions.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: HungerWeb (Tuesday, 5/24/05)
Malthus was wrong, at least, so far. Global population is many times larger now than when he did his work, and, while many people are hungry, it's not because of an inability to produce sufficient food. The people at Tufts University who maintain HungerWeb have a special interest in hunger in the United States and around the world.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Social Watch (Wednesday, 5/25/05)
Among other things, Social Watch provides country-by-country reports on issues having to do with poverty eradication and gender equality.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Statistical Abstract of the United States (Thursday, 5/26/05)
The U.S. Census Bureau takes America's measure and publishes the Statistical Abstract of the United States. The latest edition is available now.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: World Learning for International Development (Friday, 5/27/05)
World Learning for International Development conducts programs in more than 50 countries, manages funds from various governmental, quasi-governmental, and foundation sources, and focuses on education and other areas.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The 100 Best Small Companies (Saturday, 5/28/05)
Business Week has identified what it considers to be the 100 Best Small Companies. "Small," in this case, doesn't mean a "mom and pop" village shop. For instance, according to the magazine, one of the most impressive small companies is Pixar, which has produced only hit feature films so far. Its CEO is Steve Jobs,who also is CEO of Apple Computer Corporation, which makes elegant personal computers and also has the meg-hit iPod music machine. Jobs is regarded by some as the best CEO in the world. Incidentally, he is not a top business school graduate. In fact, according to reports, he has zero college credits in his transcript, having almost immediately dropped out of Portland's esteemed Reed College shortly after enrolling for his first term.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Sustainable Table (Sunday, 5/29/05)
No, this isn't a table as in "multiplication table." It's more like the table you eat on. Sustainable Table has to do with what you can do in your own home to contribute to sustainable agriculture.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: ActionBioscience.org (Monday, 5/30/05)
If the 20th century was the century of physics and its effects on economic and other aspects of practical daily life, this might be considered the century of biology. Widespread ignorance of physics certainly didn't make the world a safer place last century, and it's likely that public knowledge of the biological revolution that's going on might be very important during the years directly ahead. Here's ActionBioscience.org to help you keep up.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Global Hydrology and Climate Center (Tuesday, 5/31/05)
Will future wars be fought over water rather than oil? We don't know either, but the Global Hydrology and Climate Center might be a good place to start in order to learn about the issues as well as current research.
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