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- Leadership Run Amok
- The Idea in Brief A leader's hunger to achieve--to continually be the best--is a major source of strength for any organization. It fuels innovation, productivity, and growth: companies would be lost without it. But taken to...
- Articles 2007-12-14
- Weighing the Pros and Cons of Working from Home
- Many people believe that working from home (sometimes known as "telecommuting" or "teleworking") is the ideal employment option. And for many it is. It frees them from having to battle commuter traffic and crowds, allows them to get their work done without the interruptions of a busy office, and leaves...
- Articles 2007-11-13
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- ARAB ISRAELI RELATIONS - Dec 29 - Israel Set For Ground Invasion
- Israeli warplanes continue pounding the Gaza Strip as the casualty toll in the two-day offensive reached 296 killed and over 900 injured. At least 180 of the injured were in critical condition, Palestinian medical sources said. The UN Security Council urged an immediate end to all military activities in the...
- Articles 2009-12-31
- ARAB ISRAELI RELATIONS - Dec 26 - Israel Opens Gaza Border For Humanitarian Aid
- Israel reopens its border with Gaza to allow deliveries of humanitarian aid, despite continued rocket and mortar fire from the coastal strip and growing expectations of a large-scale Israeli military campaign against Palestinian militants. One rocket fired by militants landed short of its target and struck a house in northern...
- Articles 2009-12-31
- ARAB ISRAELI RELATIONS - Israel Issues An Appeal To Palestinians In Gaza
- The Israeli PM, Ehud Olmert issues a "last minute" appeal to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to reject the militant leadership of Hamas and stop firing rockets at Israel, warning that he would not hesitate to use force. Other Israeli officials also issued hard-line statements, indicating that Israel might be...
- Articles 2009-12-31
- CULTURE : FRANCE TOP CONTRIBUTOR TO EUROPEANA.(Brief article)
- France will contribute 52% of the first 2,000 files that will become accessible to the public via the new European digital library, Europeana. The UK will contribute 10%. Germany's participation is particularly low - only 1% - which can be explained by the fact that the ...
- Articles 2009-12-02
- INTERVIEW WITH BEN BUTTERS, DIRECTOR OF EUROPEAN AFFAIRS AT EUROCHAMBRES : "A PERFECT ROAD MAP FOR EU CLUSTERS DOES NOT EXIST".
- "Clusters would fail without businesses," says Ben Butters, Eurochambres' director of European affairs, while explaining his association's five-point proposal see separate article.aClusters are geographic concentrations of interconnected companies or institutions that are active in a particular field and are present in a nation or region....
- Articles 2009-12-02
- Airport obstacle surfaces
- 1. Introduction Airspace protection and obstacle clearance are vital to airport and aircraft operation. Restrictions should be established on the heights of buildings, antennas, trees, and other objects as necessary to protect the airspace needed for operation of the airport and aircraft. The most commonly used criteria to...
- Articles 2009-09-22
- Macroscopic modeling of lane-changing for two-lane traffic flow
- 1. Introduction An increasing numbers of traffic flow models are being developed to study the physical mechanisms of lane-changing and the complex traffic phenomena that result from this activity. Some of these models focus on the rules of lane-changing and the resulting physical phenomena that lane-changing causes, such...
- Articles 2009-09-22
- Indian gaming and beyond: tribal economic development and diversification
- I. INTRODUCTION Economic development in Indian Country, the topic of this symposium issue, is nearly synonymous with tribal gaming. No other modern industry has had such a substantial economic impact on tribal economies, and no other tribal industry has made such significant contributions outside of tribal economies. ...
- Articles 2009-09-22
- The World Without Wildlife
- Silence of the Songbirds: How We Are Losing the World's Songbirds and What We Can Do to Save Them, Bridget Stutchbury, Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007,272 pages. Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators, William Stolzenburg, New York: Bloomsbury, 2008,304...
- Articles 2009-08-01
- The carbon path not taken
- The four climate change articles and postings in your Carbon Dialogues [alternativesjoumal.ca/carbondialogues] continue to wrong-foot Alternatives' readers about the path to needed emission reductions. Examining differing ways of pricing carbon keeps us investigating ways of shoe-horning climate change mitigation within continuing political and economic business as usual, where even ineffectual...
- Articles 2009-08-01
- Bad gas
- I've been noticing that the vegetable-based ink being used in printing the magazine is gassing-off VOCs. I had some difficulty reading my last issue of Alternatives Journal [Size Matters, 35:1, 2009]. When I opened the magazine, it felt as if I had entered a high-VOC-painted room. This is something I...
- Articles 2009-08-01
- Hope gives way to how-to
- CANADIAN BOOK-BUYING CHOICES changed direction in 2008. In our informal survey of independent bookstores across the country, we learned that sales of environmental books weren't down like the stock market, but they were different from last year. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The blockbusters of 2007, Heat, An Inconvenient...
- Articles 2009-08-01
- Skewing science: four new books expose how government and industry manipulate science to fit their needs
- Diagnosis: Mercury: Money, Politics and Poison, Jane M. Hightower, Washington, DC: Island Press, 2008,326 pages. The Secret History of the War on Cancer, Devra Davis, New York: Basic Books, 2007, 560 pages. Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research, Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy...
- Articles 2009-08-01
- Jellyfish 'n' Chips
- Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood, Taras Grescoe, Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers, 2008, 326 pages. DO YOU treat yourself to oysters or salmon from time to time? Are you tempted by tiger shrimp? Is tuna your comfort food? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
- Articles 2009-08-01
- Encountering modernity: twentieth-century South African cinemas and South African national cinema
- Keyan Tomaselli. 2006. Encountering modernity: twentieth-century South African cinemas. Pretoria: Unisa Press/Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers. (ISBN 978-90-5170-886-8, 183 pp.) Jacqueline Maingard. 2007. South African national cinema. London: Routledge. (ISBN 978-0-415-21680-7, 220 pp.) Two major full-length studies of South African cinema have appeared within the past year or...
- Articles 2009-07-01
- On the psychology of oppression: blame me on history!
- The history I present here is a story of suppression of the existence of a people of which I am part; their memory and history. These are my personal recollections about the Ndebele people in post-colonial Zimbabwe, from 1980 until the present time. My task is to engage with the...
- Articles 2009-07-01
- Corruption, tribalism and democracy: coded messages in Wambali Mkandawire's popular songs in Malawi
- Abstract Popular music in Malawi cites corruption and tribalism as amongst the major threats to democracy in the country. Corruption, which involves the plundering of national public resources by a few individuals, affects the distribution of and access to these resources by the majority of Malawians. Tribalism, on...
- Articles 2009-07-01
- Packing in pink?
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Yup, that s what I said. Company founder Kim Page had the where- withal to pick up the phone and cold-call me. "Mr. Huntington, I've started a small business and don't know how to promote it, to get the word out to lady shooters out there....
- Articles 2009-07-01
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