With online retail sales falling this month for the first time, Internet merchants are offering steep discounts to anyone willing to punch in a secret coupon code or visit a rebate site for a “referral” before loading up their virtual cart.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said Monday that given the economic crisis, her union would be willing to discuss new approaches to issues like teacher tenure and merit pay.
RUI LOPES’S first impression of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, after the 2004 tsunami was chaos. Bone-jarringly rough roads led to a hastily assembled field office, where Mr. Lopes, the senior technical director of Save the Children, learned that the communications infrastructure, along with just about everything else, had been destroyed.
Proposal to make primary source documents used by journalists available online for the public to search. Interesting points in the comments about copyright issues and the difference between primary and mediated information.
GUY KAWASAKI is a best-selling author of seven books on entrepreneurship, a founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures, the co-founder of Alltop.com, an “online magazine rack,” and a popular public speaker and blogger.
WHEN he was growing up on the streets of Newark with both of his parents addicted to drugs and his father in jail, going to college wasn’t really on the horizon for Rameck Hunt. He was going to be lucky if he finished high school.
This is where Geoffrey Canada comes in. Canada, if you haven’t heard of him already, is the man behind the Harlem Children’s Zone Project, a hugely ambitious effort to improve lives in a 97-block swath of New York City. Others, like Marian Wright Edelman or Wendy Kopp, have worked as tirelessly on behalf of America’s children. But the Harlem Children’s Zone, founded in 1997, is perhaps the most in
HERE’S a pop quiz for the M.B.A. crowd: With the sharp downturn on Wall Street, applications to the nation’s business schools are likely to a) fall, b) hold steady or c) rally like a tech stock in 1999?
It’s not an academic question. Deadlines for first-round applications at many business schools are rapidly approaching. Some admissions officers are already reporting larger-than-normal crowds a
CARLSBAD, Calif.— When PJ Haarsma wrote his first book, a science fiction novel for preteenagers, he didn’t think just about how to describe Orbis, the planetary system where the story takes place. He also thought about how it should look and feel in a video game.
LOGGING on to Gmail or other e-mail service has become a routine of daily life, completed without a thought. What would you do, however, if you woke up tomorrow, plugged in your user name and password as you always do, but then received an unfamiliar message: “User name and password do not match”?
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With online retail sales falling this month for the first time, Internet merchants are offering steep discounts to anyone willing to punch in a secret coupon code or visit a rebate site for a “referral” before loading up their virtual cart.
Proposal to make primary source documents used by journalists available online for the public to search. Interesting points in the comments about copyright issues and the difference between primary and mediated information.
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