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Our View: C-4 Meetings can help us understand our youth
Jackson Sun
Here is one of the best ideas we have seen in awhile. Henderson County school counselors are holding a series of public forums to talk about significant issues facing today's children. Rapid, unprecedented changes in today's world have created new ...
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China to be more creative with FX reserves - c.bank
Reuters India
"Continued efforts will be made to manage China's reserve assets with new ideas and in a more effective manner," the central bank said before its annual press conference on Monday. "Steady progress will be made to promote capital account convertibility ...
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| Toronto Wants to Lure People to Water Wall Street Journal By KAREN JOHNSON More than 50 years ago, Toronto built what seemed like a good idea at the time: an elevated expressway along the shore of Lake Ontario to reduce downtown traffic jams. Then, in the 1970s, a wall of condo towers further sealed off a ... See all stories on this topic » |  Wall Street Journal |
Smith plus England could be a winning combination
New Zealand Herald
He has made it plain that he wants to coach again, he wants to be top dog somewhere and that his international coaching life did not expire when the All Blacks clambered through the World Cup turmoil. If that destination is England, ...
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World Model UN Conference opens in Vancouver
Vancouver Sun
From Botswana to the Bahamas, more than 2000 aspiring diplomats from around theworld have begun streaming into Vancouver to take part in this week's 2012 WorldModel United Nations Conference. They will be asked to represent the views and interests of ...
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Counterpoint: Tuition hikes are a bad idea, and the arguments for them wrong ...
Montreal Gazette
Increasing tuition is a bad idea, born of the worst impulses and economic ideas. The notion that this is just "the way things have to be" is simply not true. Here are a few of the basic arguments for tuition hikes – and why they're wrong-headed.
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Women rule in Cirque's new world
Montreal Gazette
"What I loved about The Tempest was the idea of an artist, of a shaman, of a kind of queen that rules her island," Paulus said. "But truly it was the relationship with the daughter that got me interested." (Being the mother of two daughters, ...
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Follow the Links: Piracy and Big Media
TidBITS
by Adam C. Engst “Everything is deeply intertwingled,” declared Ted Nelson in his 1974 opus “Computer Lib/Dream Machines.” While many of Nelson's ideas about how a networked hypertext system ought to work (automatic bi-directional links, ...
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Rugby: Cursed by the reign of king Carlos
New Zealand Herald
That was the one season Nick Evans played for the Blues and he arrived in form as the only All Black to have enhanced his standing at the World Cup. Incredibly, the Blues used him more at fullback than at first five. Even perennial optimists will be ...
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More ideas to solve Canada's pension problems
Vancouver Sun
It's a target benefit but day to day the operation is DC. Traditional multi-employer plans in the tax world are treated as DC plans." jchevreau@nationalpost.com © Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun E-mail this Article Print this Article Share this ...
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Tube-inspired cookbooks: Publishing world always eager to help fan eats like ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Publisher John Wiley and Sons' 2007 Sesame Street branded "C is for Cooking" flew off the shelves. For context, publishers today often consider a cookbook modestly successful if it sells 20000 to 30000 copies. "Those books do really well for us, ...
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| What Is A Climate Pragmatist To Do In A World Where The Loudest Voices Urge ... ThinkProgress By Joe Romm on Mar 7, 2012 at 12:29 pm We live in a very unpragmaticworld, from the perspective of climate change. As Elizabeth Kolbert wrote back in the day: “It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, ... See all stories on this topic » |  ThinkProgress |
| The next wave of digitization - How to set direction and build capability Business Intelligence Middle East (press release) “The coming wave will remake our world all over again. Our research into the behavior of Generation C—people born after 1990 who are just now reaching adulthood and entering the workforce—shows that the trend to global digitization will only ... See all stories on this topic » |  Business Intelligence Middle East (press release) |
Apple out of new iPads for Friday delivery
ITWorld Canada
Greg Keizer is a contributor to the International Data Group (IDG) News Service, which publishes global technology stories from bureaus around the world to more than 300 publications in more than 60 countries. - In this second video, the team will look ...
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Staying In: Tips for TV, cooking and more
San Francisco Chronicle
Leba Hertz DVDs/Blu-ray Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story: In this easygoing documentary, the Monopoly players who compete in the world championship are almost quirky enough to qualify for an Errol Morris film. "Under the Boardwalk" doesn't reach ...
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| Del Bosque cautious ahead of Euro 2012 Soccerway Spain followed up their victory at the 2008 European Championships by winning the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Del Bosque believes several of the top teams - such as Italy, England and France - will make it difficult for his side having failed to ... See all stories on this topic » |  Soccerway |
Microsoft-IDC report: huge growth in cloud jobs
ITWorld Canada
Cloud computing will create almost 14 million jobs around the world — including more than 70000 in Canada — by 2015, according to an IDC report commissioned by Microsoft Corp. The research company reported that IT departments are spending around ...
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CIOs can be chief innovation officers, too
ITWorld Canada
The position is meant to ensure that there's someone to shepherd innovation activities (ideas, processes and incentive programs) and be responsible for the success or failure of innovation. Given today's business trends, the CIO-squared combo makes a ...
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| South Americans on song in Asian Champions League AFP Evergrande's Brazilian striker Cleverson Gabriel Cordova and Argentinian midfielder Conca each scored twice at the Jeonju World Cup Stadium, with another Braziliain, Luiz Guilherme da Conceicao Silva, adding the fifth. "This is not the end, ... See all stories on this topic » |  AFP |
Senior Executives From Starbucks International and PepsiCo Share Insights ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, March 9, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- On March 22-23, 2012, The Conference Board, the leading global, independent business membership and research association, will bring together C-suite executives from some of the world's leading ...
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Coyne: Where did conservatism go?
Canada.com
I do not see the point of knowing whether a given idea is or is not conservative, or in asking how a conservative would respond to x or y. This strikes me as an odd way to think about the world: to start with a box and try to make your views fit inside ...
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CeBIT: World's biggest tech fair focuses on Trust
Gadget
More than 4 200 exhibitors from 70 countries make CeBIT 2012 in Hannover, Germany, the largest technology fair in the world. We preview the cast range of exhibits, and in particular the keynote theme, "Managing Trust". The keynote theme "Managing ...
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| In world of bad breath, occasionally halitosis causes phobia TheraBreath (blog) In these instances, just the idea of halitosis causes a phobia of oral odor, one that can be almost paralyzing. It's called halitophobia. Before we talk about it any further, remember: Except in the most extreme and unusual cases, if you think you have ... See all stories on this topic » |  TheraBreath (blog) |
50 foodie things to try before you die
New Zealand Herald
Here are 50 brilliant food ideas around Auckland that we highly recommend you try, simply because we know they will all make you happy. 50. Progressive dinners are back and they're fun. Limited only by the number of courses you choose - each one staged ...
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The 24-Hour Apple TV Network
PC Magazine
By John C. Dvorak With so much outrageous preoccupation with all things Apple, I'm stunned that nobody has proposed a 24/7, all-Apple, all-the-time cable TV network. So I will. I'm completely convinced that this network would be hugely successful.
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