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What Good is Wall Street, John Cassidy: “From the end of the Second World War until 1980 or thereabouts, people working in finance earned about the same, on average and taking account of their qualifications, as people in other industries. By 2006, wages in the financial sector were about sixty per cent higher than wages …
Long Live the Web – “The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperityand even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending.” By Tim Berners-Lee “The world wide web went live, on my physical desktop in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 1990. It consisted of one Web site and …
NYT: “After a wrenching seven-year battle, more than 10,000 workers who sued New York City over health damages they claimed after the 9/11 recovery efforts have approved a settlement, clearing the way for payouts totaling at least $625 million, lawyers said Friday. Their responses, delivered to a federal judge in Manhattan, ended months of wrangling …
Nuclear Weapons: National Nuclear Security Administration’s Plans for Its Uranium Processing Facility Should Better Reflect Funding Estimates and Technology Readiness, GAO-11-103, November 19, 2010 Defense Logistics: Additional Oversight and Reporting for the Army Logistics Modernization Program Are Needed, GAO-11-139, November 18, 2010 District of Columbia Public Education: Agencies Have Enhanced Internal Controls Over Federal Payments …
Why Tablet Computing Hasn’t Been Big Business: “Shock, horror: Apple didn’t invent the tablet computer with the iPad. Tablets have been around since the last century, and poor old Microsoft has been hacking away at software to run on tablets for the same amount of time. In fact, Microsoft coined the term “tablet.” There have …
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