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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Slave Trade Archives (Thursday, 9/1/05)
Since 1999, UNESCO has been developing its Slave Trade Archive Project in order to provide better access to original documents relating to the transatlantic slave trade.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Leaving Money (and Food) on the Table (Friday, 9/2/05)
The Brookings Institution has been studying why nearly $5 billion worth of food stamps were unclaimed during one recent year, according to U.S. Census data. Why are people leaving money and food on the table?
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: FEMA (Saturday, 9/3/05)
Here's the Federal Emergency Management Agency's web site.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Extreme Oil: The Evolution of a Valuable Resource (Sunday, 9/4/05)
Oil has been known since ancient times and has been used for a variety of purposes, including medicinal. However, it has been used as a fuel only during recent history, and, in terms of geologic time, humanity has pumped all that carbon into the atmosphere only during the last fraction of an instant. Here's a history of humanity's relationship to oil from PBS.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The History of Labor Day (Monday, 9/5/05)
Here's the History of Labor Day from the United States Department of Labor.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Mystery of the Megaflood (Tuesday, 9/6/05)
NOVA on PBS did this program on what they refer to as the "Megaflood" long before the disaster of New Orleans, and the Megaflood itself occurred LONG before. It's an interesting story and interesting research, though.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Hurricane Research Division: Frequently Asked Questions (Wednesday, 9/7/05)
We don't know if all these questions really are frequently asked or not, but there are a lot of them, and the answers are interesting and informative. For instance, if you're a little unclear about the difference between a hurricane and a typhoon, you'll find out here from NOAA's Hurricane Research Division.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States (Thursday, 9/8/05)
Here's that new 85-page report on American income, poverty, and health coverage for 2004 from the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Silicon Valley History Online (Friday, 9/9/05)
The hi-tech corridor between San Francisco and San Jose, commonly referred to as "Silicon Valley," has had a relatively brief but world-changing history. We can only wonder whether it will also have a great future, or whether its greatest days are in the past, given cutting-edge technical developments in places such as China and India. At any rate, here is Silicon Valley History Online.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: About Moving (Saturday, 9/10/05)
If you've recently moved from New Orleans with only what you were wearing and everything below your armpits soaked with contaminated water, this site may not be very helpful. However, if you're planning a move in a more normal fashion, you might want to take a glance at About Moving from MetLife.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Portrait Search (Sunday, 9/11/05)
Here's an opportunity to see if a picture or sculpture of you or someone you know is in the National Portrait Gallery. The Smithsonian Institution's Portrait Search is now available online.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Members of the Supreme Court (Monday, 9/12/05)
All indications are that John Roberts (not the journalist who works for CBS News) will be confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, even though he has managed to remain sufficiently enigmatic so as to make both "conservatives" and "liberals" wonder what kind of Justice he will be. Once he's confirmed, he may or may not meet either the expectations of the President or of the President's opponents. He can be about as independent in his new job as anyone can be, and he may be in the job for a very long time, considering that he's the same age as Bill Gates and Stephen Jobs.
At any rate, so far as professional credentials are concerned, Mr. Roberts seems about as strong as a candidate for the job could be and is likely to be the best that Democrats can hope for from a Republican president. Moreover, despite everything--and we recognize that there are a lot of caveats--Mr. Roberts' appointment could turn out to be the most influential thing that George W. Bush will have done during his presidency. The President seems to recognize this, if for no other reason than that you could write the names of all the chief justices there have ever been during the entire history of the country on the back of your hand, something you are not likely to be able to do with the list of presidents so far.
The typical chief justice sees presidents come and go and usually serves through several presidencies. If you're an older "boomer" or too old to be a boomer, John Roberts may well be the last chief justice you will see during your lifetime. In fact, when the author of NewWork News retired from commercial broadcasting, John Roberts was ten years old, and when he began teaching college courses, Mr. Roberts was not yet a teenager.
From the Supreme Court of the United States, here is a list of all of the justices who have ever served on the Court.
Incidentally, the fact that the CBS News journalist has the same name as the soon-to-be Chief Justice is amusing. However, the name of one of the stars of TV's "Law and Order: SVU" seemed to be on many insiders' lists of possible successors to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. This isn't quite so funny as it may seem, though, because the person we're referring to began acting as a hobby, and, even though he has appeared in many feature films in addition to his television appearances, he has been a practicing lawyer during most of the time since he was a young man, was Minority Counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee, and has served as a United States Senator. He's lawyer, politician, and actor Fred Thompson.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Naukri (Tuesday, 9/13/05)
Naukri claims to be India's largest job site.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Largest Oil Spills (Wednesday, 9/14/05)
Here is a list of the largest oil spills on record from Southern Cross University in Australia.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Association of Insurance Commissioners (Thursday, 9/15/05)
The NAIC says that its mission is to assist state insurance regulators in performing their public service missions. As you might expect, many members of the Association have been thinking quite a lot about things such as Hurricane Katrina and also healthcare in the United States.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (Friday, 9/16/05)
The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law presently works with more than 90 countries around the world in helping to establish legal frameworks for civil societies.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Farm Service Agency office closings (Saturday, 9/17/05)
A great many Farm Service Agency offices are scheduled for closing. Here's more information about that across the contiguous continental United States.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: World Malaria Report 2005 (Sunday, 9/18/05)
Most Americans may not think too much about malaria, but people in many other parts of the world have good reason to think about it a lot. Here's the World Malaria Report 2005 from the World Health Organization in concert with other humanitarian associations.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: United Nations Millennium Development Goals (Monday, 9/19/05)
We've reported recently on how other issues have distracted the UN from its plans for reducing global poverty. Nonetheless, here are the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: A New Perspective on Counting in OECD Countries (Tuesday, 9/20/05)
Jean-Christopher and George Lemaitre modify existing methodology used for counting immigrants and expatriates from member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Institute for Higher Education Policy (Wednesday, 9/21/05)
The Institute for Higher Education Policy conducts research and sponsored seminars in an effort to influence public education policy.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Effective Federal Funds Rate Over the Past Half-Century (Thursday, 9/22/05)
Here's a graph based on data from the Federal Reserve showing the Effective Federal Funds Rate over the 50 since since 1955. The article also explains the difference between the nominal and effective rates.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: 400 Richest Americans (Sunday, 9/25/05)
Here's Forbes magazine's latest list of the 400 Richest Americans.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Medicare and Medicaid at 40 (Monday, 9/26/05)
Today's sixty-five-year-old Americans have spent 40 years being too young for Medicare, but now aren't too young for anything anymore. The Kaiser Family Foundation examines Medicare and Medicaid 40 years after they were signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Center for the Built Environment (Tuesday, 9/27/05)
Since 1977, the University of California, Berkeley's Center for the Built Environment has been a leading "thinktank" for research relating to the design and development of better, more efficient buildings that better serve the needs of those who occupy and use them. The Center was created by a consortium of government and business leaders.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Trust for America's Health (Wednesday, 9/28/05)
The Trust for America's Health is a non-profit organization dedicated to making disease prevention a national priority.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Global Competitiveness Report 2005-2006 (Thursday, 9/29/05)
The latest edition of the Global Competitiveness Report for 2005-2006 was released yesterday by the World Economic Forum.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Friday, 9/30/05)
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean is part of the United Nations, was started in 1948, and focuses on the coordination of economic development programs among nations in the Latin American region.
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