Companies should always respect the law in the country they are operating in. So in Saudi Arabia women faces severe discrimination in many aspects of their lives, including education, employment and the justice system and they are ...READ»
BYRobert Safian Relevancy Score: 68 Sat Oct 20, 2007 at 12:00 AM
Do you remember when oil blew through the $50-a-barrel mark? The anguish and fear were palpable. The markets shuddered. After crude first crossed the $60 line in 2005, oil companies were called to testify in Washington. A national ...READ»
BYCollin Lawson Relevancy Score: 60 Sat Nov 15, 2008 at 1:39 PM
This Saturday as world leaders from the G20 meet in Washington, the topic du jour is stabilizing the world economy.
Leaders from the United States, France, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, China, Germany, India, ...READ»
BYDanielle Sacks Relevancy Score: 50 Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 7:31 PM
"Green collar" evangelist Van Jones spoke last week at Greenbuild of Obama's election victory, to the thousands of architects, designers and engineers, "It's not that we now have a president who's black. It's that for the first time we have a president who's actually green."READ»
BYAnya Kamenetz Relevancy Score: 46 Fri Feb 6, 2009 at 10:58 AM
It's become commonplace in the sustainability world to say water is the oil of the 21st century. But it may be more accurate to say it's the new carbon. The problem is not about absolute scarcity--after all, the world's supply of ...READ»
BY Cora Daniels Relevancy Score: 31 Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:24 AM
Andrew Perlman
Founder and CEO, Greatpoint Energy
Chicago, Illinois
Andrew Perlman, 32, wants to turn America's coal into what he calls Bluegas--99.5% methane. His company, backed by venture firm Kleiner Perkins, has a ...READ»
BYJason Del Rey Relevancy Score: 30 Tue Nov 20, 2007 at 12:10 PM
Shortcut-seeking high school and college students are not alone. Someone else plagiarized a passage from Wikipedia.
The lifted material didn't appear in a midterm essay, though. Instead, according to an article in yesterday's New ...READ»
The New Face of Al Jazeera, Page 42, by Linda Tischler
With its often strident anti-American rhetoric and penchant for showing al Qaeda-produced hostage tapes, the Arabic news channel al Jazeera is seen by many Americans as little ...READ»
BYHeath Row Relevancy Score: 25 Mon Mar 15, 2004 at 1:25 PM
Danah Boyd is an information management PhD student at the University of California, where she researches how people negotiate their presentation of self in online communities and other social contexts. Anil Dash works as VP of ...READ»
BYBrian Reich Relevancy Score: 23 Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 9:44 AM
You want a resolution for 2009? Watch more TV and heed its lessons. Two examples of why:
Every weekday morning Bravo! airs two episodes of the West Wing - the Emmy Award winning drama about life inside the west wing of the White ...READ»
BY John Robb Relevancy Score: 23 Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:07 AM
The myth of American omnipotence fell in the Iraqi desert, laid low by an agile new enemy. We have a chance now to rethink the systems that protected us in the past. It's one we cannot miss.READ»
BY Keith H. Hammonds Relevancy Score: 22 Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:13 AM
Who cares where our cars, computers, or clothes are made? If December's "Battle of Seattle" is any indication, lots of people do. A book by two savvy journalists makes the case for globalization.READ»
BYBud Bilanich Relevancy Score: 21 Tue May 6, 2008 at 10:34 AM
Today is Tuesday, so this post is on creating positive personal impact.
A strong personal brand is a great way to create positive personal impact. Last week, I was chatting with a long time friend, Roger Rountree, about his ...READ»
BY Jennifer Vilaga Relevancy Score: 20 Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:04 AM
What does it take to make a better bed net? It's no small matter: Bed nets are a critical defense against malaria, which each year kills 1 million people and makes another 300 million ill in developing regions. The solution, it turns out, is no small matter either.READ»
What's going wrong at Ikea?
This week, a 6,000-strong crowd stampeded at the launch of a new store in north London, forcing the Swedish retailer to close the doors just 40 minutes after they opened at midnight. Nine ambulances were ...READ»
