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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Best Employers for Workers Over 50 (Wednesday, 3/1/06)
Here's another list, but this one doesn't come from Fortune magazine. Instead, here's the 2005 list of Best Employers for Workers Over 50 in the judgment of people at AARP.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Thursday, 3/2/06)
There are eight major areas of information on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services site from the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Yahoo 2006 Tax Guide (Friday, 3/3/06)
To say that the American tax code is complicated would be one of the greatest understatements in the more than nine decades since income taxes started in the United States. The Yahoo 2006 Tax Guide may be able to help you this year.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (Monday, 3/6/06)
If you're a native-born, English-speaking American, you can get a sense of what it's like to try to cope with modern life and make a living if you imagine yourself in an isolated Chinese city off the beaten tourist path where you can't even read the street signs, or even tell if one sign is different from another. Here's the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy at Harvard University.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Pew Institute for Ocean Science (Tuesday, 3/7/06)
The Philadelphia-based Pew Charitable Trusts support a great many public policy and public information efforts, including the Pew Institute for Ocean Science. "Climate change" doesn't involve only a warming of the atmosphere, but also of the world's oceans, and helps explain the recent increase in the intensity of hurricanes. It also helps explain what ocean species will have to cope with from now on, and should remind us that the great period of mass extinction we're now in doesn't threaten only creatures that crawl around on the land or fly very near to the land's surface. Incidentally, there is more water than land covering Earth, and we may know less about the ocean's great depths than we know about Pluto.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education (Wednesday, 3/8/06)
For-profit organizations have been acquiring accreditation and grabbing more and more students from conventional colleges and universities for more and more online programs. The National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York has been studying the phenomenon.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: California Climate Change Portal (Thursday, 3/9/06)
How are you at living on a planet that may soon have conditions different from any since before humans first appeared on the Earth? We may all soon find out. America's most populous state has been concerned about climate change for a long time, as their California Climate Change Portal attests.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The World's Billionaires (Friday, 3/10/06)
There are more billionaires in the world than a year ago and far more than there were a few years ago. It's one of the things that Donald Trump and Oprah have in common, in addition to their both being moguls who appear on TV regularly. Martha Stewart is still on TV too, but she's no longer a billionaire, at least for the moment. Being an ex-con doesn't seem to help bolster one's finances, although Michael Milken did prison time too, and considerably more than Martha, but he's solidly on the Fortune magazine's list of billionaires this year at the $2 billion level.
Overall, Forbes magazine identifies 793 billionaires this year. It's a far cry from that time during the 1960s when Howard Hughes and J. Paul Getty shared the cover of a major American news magazine. At the time, they were identified as probably the only two billionaires in the world. But, of course, a billion isn't what it used to be.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Archaeology Magazine (Saturday, 3/11/06)
As part of the knowledge explosion and as new information becomes available, it's becoming increasingly accurate to say that, in effect, all human generations in the future will have a different history than all generations so far. Archeologists are playing a key role in rediscovering the past. Here's Archaeology Magazine.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Public Library of Science (Sunday, 3/12/06)
The cost of producing scientific journals on paper is very great, so perhaps you've been wondering how long it would be before the Internet is used to distribute scientific information within the professional scientific community. The Public Library of Science has been attempting to do just that, and is picking up the pace.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Immigration Services and Benefits (Monday, 3/13/06)
Here is a description of Immigration Services and Benefits from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which is now part of the United States Department of Homeland Security.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Germany and its Economy (Tuesday, 3/14/06)
The World Factbook, published by the American Central Intelligence Agency, claims that Germany has the fifth-largest economy in the world. This may suggest the importance of examining criteria and specifically what is being measured, or it may simply represent what seems to be wrong with the American intelligence system overall. Germany most often is credited with having the third-largest economy, behind the United States and Japan, followed by the economies of Great Britain and France. However, in recent months, evidence has been presented indicating that China now has the fourth-largest economy, and, if California were a country, it would have the fourth-largest national economy in the world. At any rate, here is The World Factbook's entry on Germany, which they say was last updated in January of this year.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Official U.S. Time (Wednesday, 3/15/06)
If you want to be really precise about what time it is now, or now, or now, here's where you can make it official. It's the official U.S. Time from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, usually accurate to within a half-second or so, according to them.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Economics Information for Complete Beginners (Thursday, 3/16/06)
If you're still mystified by economics' basic concepts and principles, About.com offers Economics Information for Complete Beginners.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The State of the World's Children 2006 (Friday, 3/17/06)
How are the world's children doing? UNICEF provides its latest report, The State of the Worldıs Children 2006, as well as an executive summary, if you're pressed for time.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Culture (Saturday, 3/18/06)
If, like us, you are located in America's Upper Midwest, you will be interested in visiting the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Culture.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Center for Applied Science Technology (Sunday, 3/19/06)
The Center for Applied Science Technology was founded more than two decades ago in order to expand learning opportunities, particularly for those with disabilities.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Employment Opportunities (Monday, 3/20/06)
Would you like to work for the United States House of Representatives? Here's where to start in your search for employment opportunities. Incidentally, it is said that there are about as many lobbyists in Washington as members of the Congress, plus staff, which is tens of thousands in each case.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Nutrition and Health from University of Illinois Extension (Tuesday, 3/21/06)
The University of Illinois is among the large public universities that have played a key role in reaching out to a variety of constituencies off the campus. The University's program on Nutrition and Health is an example.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Members of the United States House of Representatives (Wednesday, 3/22/06)
Here are all of the Members of the United States House of Representatives and how you can contact them.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Health Savings Accounts (Thursday, 3/23/06)
Here's information about President Bush's Health Savings Accounts from the Treasury Department.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Federal Tax Forms (Friday, 3/24/06)
Yahoo offers Federal Tax Forms for your convenience online.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (Saturday, 3/25/06)
The Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy has its headquarters on the campus of one of the world's leading public universities and has been in operation far longer than contemporary concerns with globalization and the new world economy.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Deadly Virus (Sunday, 3/26/06)
If you still think you don't have to worry about bird flu, so long as you're not a bird, think again. Recorded history has been replete with natural disasters, including pandemics, that have killed a major portion of existing populations. You've probably talked to people who remembered the most recent, which killed tens of millions of people. Here's The Deadly Virus: The Influenza Epidemic of 1918.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Institute for Global Ethics (Monday, 3/27/06)
Now that cultures which had been separated either by thousands of years or thousands of miles are coming into daily collision, it's important to search for common ground. The Institute for Global Ethics examines the question of whether there really are any universal core values.
Our NewWorld Trends project is based, in part, on the assertion that one of the most important values now involves a commitment to using the most powerful and trustworthy methods available for developing answers to empirical questions of all kinds. This is something that most of the world's religions and political ideologies, rooted in the ancient past, tend not to do.
The persistence of war, Germany's Nazi period, as well as other examples of genocide, the recent transAtlantic slave trade, the present resurgence of slavery throughout much of the world, as well as attitudes toward indigenous peoples nearly everywhere, all emphasize that it's very important what our ideas are and where they come from. Both depend on how we have obtained them. WHAT we know depends entirely on HOW we know it.
The knowledge revolution of recent history has affected greatly those members of humanity who are aware of it and understand its implications. However, most people in American society and the rest of the world still are not aware of WHAT IT TAKES to develop genuine knowledge, something about which scholars have learned a great deal during recent years.
We've also learned a great deal about the processes by which most people TYPICALLY develop and maintain their attitudes, including attitudinal belief components. Current knowledge of these processes helps explain how people can be so sure of things even when they have so little to go on, for example.
For those who still don't know any better, it's time to learn. For "consequentialists," at least, who DO understand the great modern knowledge revolution, but insist on not allowing it to influence them, it seems fundamentally immoral. It amounts to one of the most basic and important value issues, eclipsing many others that we hear more about.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: 10 Must-Know Tax Terms (Tuesday, 3/28/06)
It's hard to know what you're doing if you aren't familiar with the necessary vocabulary. Yahoo's Tax Center describes 10 Must-Know Tax Terms.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: This American Life (Wednesday, 3/29/06)
Chicago Public Radio's This American Life has been broadcast since 1995, and previous programs are available for listening on its web site.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: MedPage Today (Thursday, 3/30/06)
MedPage Today enables you to check in on the latest medical news and comes from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Economic History Services (Friday, 3/31/06)
The Economic History Services site has been operating since 1994 and is anything but "dismal."
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