BNET Industries
Christian Science Monitor is in the Media Industry
Latest News and Analysis
Is "Nickle and Dimed" a Myth?
The Christian Science Monitor has a compelling interview with Adam Shepard, a self-made young college grad who decided to test out Barbara Ehrenreich's theory in Nickel and Dimed -- that the poor can't get out of poverty. He started his post-graduation weeks with nothing but the clothes on his back...
Competition Gears Up
As more firms advance the notion that workers must stay ahead in order to stay on, officemates joust in ways that can be cooperative or cutting. Article includes a study commissioned by Accountemps, 55 percent of executives surveyed said competition among co-workers is more prevalent now than it was 10...
Additional Resources
Difference in race doesn't mean a difference in learning style
ACCRA, Ghana -- A few weeks ago, I found myself in a fascinating conversation with a Ghanaian colleague about the ways that people learn. As she noted, most education at universities and secondary schools in Ghana occurs via rote: The teacher says something, then the students write it down. When...
SPJ Appoints Amy Green to Freelance Committee Chairwoman Post
SPJ leaders are pleased to announce theappointment of former Associated Press Religion Reporter Amy Green to theposition of Freelance Committee Chairwoman. A freelance journalist based in Orlando, Fla., Green started as aneditorial intern for People in Miami in 1998. After working for the AP, shelaunched her freelance career in 2002....
Choices are what you make of them
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Week in, week out, I hear the same refrain from former students, many of them bright, young women: They are searching for something else. Not that there is anything especially wrong with their lives, their jobs, their grad programs. It's just that things haven't turned out...
Pursuit of illegal immigrants isn't local responsibility
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Imagine living in a state where local police officers can stop anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally, and arrest them if they lack proof of citizenship. Last month, Rhode Island Gov. Donald Carcieri signed an executive order directing state police to enforce federal immigration...
'Teaching to the test' is not the same as cheating
LOS ANGELES -- I have a confession to make. For the entire 28 years that I taught high school English, I taught to the test. And I'm proud to finally admit it. I know that 'fessing up to this perceived transgression will reflexively draw clamor from everyone...
Olympic alternative
ATHENS -- Opponents of Chinese policy in Tibet, Darfur, and elsewhere are calling for total or partial boycotts of Beijing's summer Olympics. Protesters disrupted the running of the torch in London and Paris this week, triggering talk of canceling the international leg of the relay. And Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton...
Aid for the poor
AID FOR THE POOR: It is a myth that abject poverty can't be eradicated in out lifetime, says Mark Lange. The number of people worldwide who survive on less than $1 a day dropped 27 percent between 1981 and 2001. And whereas abject poverty was once spread all over the...
Ireland's premier to step down
DUBLIN, Ireland -- On the eve of the 10th anniversary of Northern Ireland's historic Good Friday agreement, one of the leaders who cemented the deal announced his resignation amid growing scrutiny over alleged financial impropriety. At a surprise news conference Wednesday here in the Irish capital, Prime...
Not all adult kids are squeezing boomer parents for cash
PORTLAND, Ore. -- I've heard a lot lately about my generation clinging financially to our parents. There are books, there are studies, there is a general groan from the sandwich generation -- baby boomers caring for both their parents and their grown-up kids. What I don't understand is how so...
Give it up
GIVE IT UP: In July 2006 Will Bowen, pastor of Christ Church Unity in Kansas City, Missouri, challenged his congregation to give up complaining for 21 days and instead focus on the way things should be. To help reinforce the message, he distributed purple silicon bracelets with the word Spirit....
Iraq unknowns: 5 years later -- and still too soon to judge
A post-invasion Iraq that was projected to finance its own reconstruction is now absorbing 12 billion U.S. taxpayer dollars per month. An Iraqi society that was supposed to become a model of liberal democracy is instead torn by insurgent violence and dependent upon a huge U.S. military presence. Insurgents have...
College athletes are students first and should not be paid
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- As the NCAA's season-ending basketball tournament approaches, talk of the future of college sports is hot. One of the most controversial questions: Should the college athletes who are the main attraction at this multibillion-dollar March Madness tournament be paid? As a longtime supporter...
Tattoos to quickly lose their luster
YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio -- My neighbor got a tattoo. After examining the bluish-green lizard on his teenage bicep, I said with my usual tact and sensitivity, "Hope you like it 30 years from now." My neighbor looked a bit glum. Buyer's remorse, perhaps. "So do I," he said. The thought...
Teachers air support for principal
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a sampling of The Education Report, reporter Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools. Read more and post comments at http://www.ibabuzz.com/education. March 12 Last week, I went to Sobrante Park Elementary School to see how its teachers -- including...
All the news
ALL THE NEWS: The Voice of San Diego represents a new trend in journalism--a small, Web-based nonprofit publication supported by foundations and philanthropists and other donors. While it has a staff of only eight reporters and editors, it has done investigative reporting on issues that the conventional press has ignored....
Huckabee: critics dwell on his pastor past
REPUBLICAN presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says that critics have unfairly focused on his former career as a Southern Baptist pastor rather than his role as Arkansas governor. "It's been fascinating to me that people have tried to marginalize me as a candidate of the fringe," said Huckabee at...
GOP Can Make Gains in House in '08
To hear most pundits tell it these days, a Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives is the nearest thing to eternal life on earth. They note that 28 Republican House members are retiring in '08-a higher number than in the '06 election cycle-and that Democrats are performing splendidly...
Capital Briefs
* REPUBLICANS DISAGREE OVER RENZI: With three-term Rep. Rick Renzi under indictment on corruption charges, there is apparent disagreement among GOP leaders in the House over whether the Arizona Republican, who has already announced his retirement in '08, should resign. "The charges contained in this indictment are completely unacceptable for...
- Next »
- page 1 of 46
- « Previous
Sort byClose
Christian Science Monitor Company Info
NAICS Code
Newspaper Publishers: 511110
