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Archive for October 10th, 2005
Monday, October 10, 2005 Immigrants Rush to New Orleans For Work By Dave Berns “As many evacuees stay away, Latin American workers move in, lured by soaring pay. They could change the face of the city,” reports The Los Angeles Times.
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Monday, October 10, 2005 Newspaper Industry In a “Collective Funk” By Dave Berns “Newspaper people across the country have descended into a collective funk over a run of bad news in recent weeks — culminating with announcements of newsroom job cuts in San Francisco, San Jose, New York, Boston and Philadelphia,” reports The Los Angeles Times.
“The total retrenchment at half a dozen papers will amount to only about [...]
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Monday, October 10, 2005 Katrina Washed Away Much of Mississippi’s History By Dave Berns “The beachfront cottage where Jefferson Davis wrote his memoirs stood for a century and a half in the shade of towering oak trees, but Hurricane Katrina reduced it to rubble in just a few hours,” reports CNN.com.
“Like nearly all historical homes on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, the cottages at Beauvoir were swept away by Katrina’s [...]
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Monday, October 10, 2005 Cultural Resource: Help For Doing Business in Other Countries By Dave Berns A valuble resource provided by Ohio University. Take a look and bookmark some of these offerings.
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Monday, October 10, 2005 NPR Audio: Skeptics Question Plan to Convert New Orleans Into Major Casino Destination By Dave Berns “New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin wants to turn parts of the city’s downtown area into a Las Vegas-style gambling zone. The plan is Nagin’s effort to revive the city’s post-Katrina economy. Many are skeptical,” reports NPR.
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Monday, October 10, 2005 Give the prez a break By Len Butcher As I watch and read the news every day and see the problems, many unsolvable, the bickering of our politicians, the polarization of our country and the media frenzy to make mountains out of molehills, I wonder why anyone would want to be the President of the United States.
I can’t think, and I’ve tried, of [...]
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Monday, October 10, 2005 Internet Entering “Vibrant New Phase” By Dave Berns “Led by the Internet, the high-tech industry appears to be entering a vibrant new phase of both growth and upheaval,” reports The Christian Science Monitor.
“This is a far different boom from the dotcom craze of the late 1990s. It is the Web’s sober second act, characterized not by soaring stock prices but by forces that [...]
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Monday, October 10, 2005 Audio Report: NPR Speaks With One of Two New Nobel Prize Winners in Economics By Dave Berns “Thomas C. Schelling and Robert Aumann are co-winners of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics. The two worked independently to apply game theory to social and political problems. Robert Siegel speaks with Dr. Schelling, who teaches at the University of Maryland,” reports NPR.
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Monday, October 10, 2005 Video Report: ABC News Documents Efforts to Prevent a Dirty Bomb Attack on U.S. Soil By Dave Berns Type the URL —–( http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/LooseNukes/) — And click on “Video” to view report)
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Monday, October 10, 2005 Microsoft Deals With Growing Pains By Dave Berns “As Microsoft hits 30, critics reel off a list of complaints that sounds like, well, a Microsoft commercial: stifling bureaucracy, frustrating miscommunication, different units working on overlapping technology without adequate cooperation. In short, the very ills Microsoft promises to cure with its software,” writes USA Today.
“Growing pains have delayed products, leaving the door open for [...]
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